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The Centenary of the WWI Armistice

The Centenary of the WWI Armistice
The eternal flame of the Tomb of the Unknown soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, during the Armistice Day commemorations marking the end of WWI (World War One) on Nov. 11, 2017. JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP/Getty Images
David Kilgour
David Kilgour
Human Right Advocate and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
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Nov. 11 this year marks the centenary of the 1918 Armistice, following the Great War triggered by the assassination of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand in 1914.

Researcher Patrick Chovanec of the New York Review of Books Daily views the war as a portal between “an older, more distant world—a world of kings with handlebar mustaches, splendid uniforms, and cavalry charges—and the world that we know today—of planes and tanks, mass political movements.”

David Kilgour
David Kilgour
Human Right Advocate and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
David Kilgour, J.D., former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific, senior member of the Canadian Parliament and nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work related to the investigation of forced organ harvesting crimes against Falun Gong practitioners in China, He was a Crowne Prosecutor and longtime expert commentator of the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong and human rights issues in Africa. He co-authored Bloody Harvest: Killed for Their Organs and La Mission au Rwanda.
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