Friday, April 24, 2015

Armenia marks centenary of genocide by Ottoman Turkish Empire...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande and other dignitaries assembled at the Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex in Yerevan on Friday morning.

They walked along the memorial with a single yellow rose and lay it in the center of a wreath resembling a forget-me-not, a flower declared as a symbol of the commemoration.

"We will never forget the tragedy that your people went through," the French president said at a Yerevan ceremony.

"Important words have already been said in Turkey, but others are still expected so that shared grief can become shared destiny," Hollande added.

President Vladimir Putin said the world should never allow a repetition of the genocide of more than 1.5 million Armenians.

 "There is no and cannot be any justification for the mass murder of people," Putin underlined. Full story...

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