I can't answer for "GUEST", but over the years, a lot of my "folk music" involvement has been connected with folk musicians and other traditional artists and the communities that they are a part of.

Let me assure you that the sense of loss resulting from the the series of massacres of Armenians in the the last decades of the Ottoman Empire is a central focus in every Armenian community, as is the knowledge that there is a widespread effort to restrict discussion of the events.

Armenian traditions, such as music, dance, and folk and foodways, are ways that these communities keep alive the memory of a culture and a society that was nearly obliterated--so, in that way, this subject is really is directly related to folk music--

The Armenian holocausts involved the death of millions of people--some estimates put the numbers even above the Nazi Holocausts. If they had been widely remembered, maybe...well, anyway, I don't fault anyone who brings up something that it is good not to forget...