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ARMENIA WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER 1915 GENOCIDE - PRESIDENT SARGSYAN
Interfax
April 24 2012
Russia
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and other high-ranking officials
laid flowers at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in Yerevan as the country
marks the 97th anniversary of the murder of 1.5 million Armenians by
Ottoman Turks in 1915.
In his message, Sargsyan described today's anniversary as a day of
national mourning.
"Nothing that was lost has been forgotten. We are Armenia," the
president said.
"We will work together to make our state, our Armenian homeland
stronger. We will pass the memories of new victories on to the coming
generations. When I say all together, I mean both old and young people,
farmers and the intelligentsia, Armenians from the community abroad
and Armenians living in their home country, and especially our state,
which will not allow similar events or acts of genocide against the
Armenians or any other person to happen in the future," Sargsyan said.
Several thousand people joined a Monday torch procession in Yerevan
marking the 97th anniversary of the murder of 1.5 million ethnic
Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. They moved from the center
of Yerevan to the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial commemorating the Armenian
Genocide victims. A Turkish flag was burned at the start of the event.
Interfax
April 24 2012
Russia
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and other high-ranking officials
laid flowers at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in Yerevan as the country
marks the 97th anniversary of the murder of 1.5 million Armenians by
Ottoman Turks in 1915.
In his message, Sargsyan described today's anniversary as a day of
national mourning.
"Nothing that was lost has been forgotten. We are Armenia," the
president said.
"We will work together to make our state, our Armenian homeland
stronger. We will pass the memories of new victories on to the coming
generations. When I say all together, I mean both old and young people,
farmers and the intelligentsia, Armenians from the community abroad
and Armenians living in their home country, and especially our state,
which will not allow similar events or acts of genocide against the
Armenians or any other person to happen in the future," Sargsyan said.
Several thousand people joined a Monday torch procession in Yerevan
marking the 97th anniversary of the murder of 1.5 million ethnic
Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. They moved from the center
of Yerevan to the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial commemorating the Armenian
Genocide victims. A Turkish flag was burned at the start of the event.