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  • April 24: Day Of Mourning And Commemoration

    APRIL 24: DAY OF MOURNING AND COMMEMORATION

    Panorama.am
    15:06 31/03/2009

    A special committee was formed in Constantinople, in March 1919, by
    a group of Ottoman Armenian intellectuals who survived the Armenian
    Genocide. The main goal of this committee was the organization of
    commemoration ceremonies dedicated to the 4th anniversary of the
    Armenian Genocide. The committee, known as "The April 11th Board
    of Ceremonial Mourning" consisted of 13 members including Yevphime
    Avetisian, Zaruhi Galamkarian, Mari Stambulian, Perchuhi Parsamian,
    Miss Arpiar, Tigran Zaven, Merujan Parsamyan, Hakob Siruni, Gevorg
    Mesrop, Tagvor Suqiasian, Dr. Barsegh Tinanian, Shahan Perperian and
    Hovhannes Poghosian.

    Due to the efforts of these people the memory of the victims
    of Armenian Genocide was commemorated among the Armenians of
    Constantinople for the first time in 1919. Armenian writer, publicist
    and public figure Hakob Siruni wrote in his memoirs: "The mourning
    ceremony became a tradition. Since then, the 24th of April was adopted
    as a symbol of mourning."

    Since the first commemoration of the Armenian Genocide victims in
    Istanbul, April 24 officially was adopted as "Day of Mourning and
    Commemoration".
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