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    YEREVAN PREPARES FOR THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CENTENNIAL

    Global Voices
    April 20 2015

    Posted 20 April 2015

    This Friday, April 24, is an important date to Armenians worldwide. It
    will mark 100 years from the day when Ottoman authorities began
    rounding up around 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders
    in Constantinople, paving the way for the Armenian Genocide in which
    an estimated 1 to 1.5 million Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empires
    were systematically exterminated between 1915 and 1918.

    All around Yerevan, the purple colors of the aptly-named Forget-Me-Not
    Flower can be seen everywhere. From schoolchildren carrying it in the
    form of a pin on their chests to coffee-drinking university students
    displaying it in the form of a sticker on their laptop. Everywhere,
    streets, homes, hospitals, supermarkets, restaurants, shops and hotels
    are all displaying the flower with a simple message: "I Remember
    and Demand."

    Remembering the Genocide and demanding recognition from the Republic
    of Turkey, the legal successor to the the Ottoman Empire, have
    been part of virtually every Armenian's life and identity for the
    past century. Generation after generation, the survivors of the
    Armenian Genocide and their descendants have been campaigning for
    the international community to recognize the fact. To date, only 21
    countries have fully recognized the Armenia Genocide including France,
    Italy, Lebanon and Russia.

    The Forget-Me-Not flower can be seen planted all around Yerevan. As
    The Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America explained, the
    Forget-Me-Not "expresses the theme of eternal remembrance, and is also
    meant to symbolically evoke the past, present, and future experiences".

    https://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/04/20/yerevan-prepares-for-the-armenian-genocide-centennial/

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