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ARMENIANS COMMEMORATE 1915 GENOCIDE
Xinhua General News Service
April 24, 2012 Tuesday 1:18 AM EST
China
Thousands of Armenians including President Serzh Sargsyan gathered
around a special monument on Tuesday to commemorate the 97th
anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
Sargsyan and his ruling elite laid flowers at the monument to honor
the memory of the victims of the horrible events 97 years ago.
On April 24, 1915, the Ottoman Empire arrested several hundred Armenian
intellectuals overnight, among whom most were executed summarily and
others were sent to exile, according to Armenian historians.
That was followed by mass deportations of Armenians from the eastern
regions of Turkey, and an estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed
from 1915 to 1923, the historians say.
More than 20 countries and 43 U.S. states have officially recognized
the Armenian genocide. In some countries including Switzerland and
Belgium, denying the genocide is a punishable crime.
However, the Turkish government has always denied that those events
constituted a genocide.
Xinhua General News Service
April 24, 2012 Tuesday 1:18 AM EST
China
Thousands of Armenians including President Serzh Sargsyan gathered
around a special monument on Tuesday to commemorate the 97th
anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
Sargsyan and his ruling elite laid flowers at the monument to honor
the memory of the victims of the horrible events 97 years ago.
On April 24, 1915, the Ottoman Empire arrested several hundred Armenian
intellectuals overnight, among whom most were executed summarily and
others were sent to exile, according to Armenian historians.
That was followed by mass deportations of Armenians from the eastern
regions of Turkey, and an estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed
from 1915 to 1923, the historians say.
More than 20 countries and 43 U.S. states have officially recognized
the Armenian genocide. In some countries including Switzerland and
Belgium, denying the genocide is a punishable crime.
However, the Turkish government has always denied that those events
constituted a genocide.