James Miller and Fergal Keane were honored with the Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award 2004
Director James Miller and BBC correspondent Fergal Keane were honored with the Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award for their documentary film “Armenia: The Betrayed”. James Miller’s wife, Sophy, received the award on their behalf at the gala banquet in the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, California, on October 10, 2004.
James Miller was an accomplished director and cinematographer who worked extensively in documentary film. He had won a variety of awards, including EMMY, BAFTA, RTS, and others. Unfortunately, James Miller was killed by Israeli military fire in the Gaza Strip in 2003, while making a documentary film about the condition of the Palestinian people. His wife, Sophy, arrived from England to receive the Armin T. Wegner Award on behalf of her husband and Fergal Keane, who was making a documentary film in Africa at that time.
Fergal Keane, during his time with the BBC as a special correspondent, had reported from trouble spots, from Northern Ireland to Rwanda, and won a string of awards for his hard-hitting reports.
Fergal Keane and James Miller (posthumously) shared the Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award for their documentary film “Armenia: The Betrayed”. For decades, the Armenian people have campaigned to have the killings of one-and-a-half-million of their forefathers in Ottoman Turkey in 1915-1923 recognized as genocide. But there has been an equally determined campaign by Turkey to deny genocide, with threats of reprisals against any country that recognizes the Armenian Genocide. Talking to Armenian survivors, Turkish officials, and key political figures in the United States, James and Fergal investigate a genocide, political intrigue, and a people betrayed.