Armenia commemorates the 107th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide

Thousands of people marched to Yerevan’s Tsitsernakabert memorial to commemorate the 107th anniversary of the Ottoman Empire’s Armenian genocide.

Thousands of people from Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, the Diaspora, and international visitors came to the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial to pay their respects to the more than 1.5 million Armenians who died in the early twentieth-century Genocide.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and President Vahagn Khachaturyan performed an official wreath-laying ceremony at the hilltop memorial to kick off the annual day-long procession.

PM Pashinyan in a message said that the Armenian people endured a cruel catastrophe, the genocide, 107 years ago.

To him, Ottoman Turkey’s purpose was to wipe out their forefathers. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians traveled to other areas of the world as a result of the genocide, and it is now difficult to locate a spot on the planet where there are no Armenians.

Pashinyan explained in the message that thousands of schools, churches, and monasteries were demolished, resulting in irreversible losses to the Armenian people’s cultural, spiritual, and religious heritage.

Armenian people according to PM Pashinyan have been able to straighten their backs, preserve their identity, and restore an independent state in the last century as a consequence of unity, unremitting work, and constant efforts, despite horrible horrors. And this became the most compelling evidence of our people’s ability to survive.

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