ONE AND A HALF MILLION CANDLES WILL BURN IN MEMORY OF THE GENOCIDE VICTIMS

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01-04-2005

On April 24 this year one and a half million people will go to
Tsitsernakaberd and other monuments in memory of the Genocide
victims. On end a half million flowers will be put on the monument to
one and a half million innocent victims, and one and a half million
candles will burn that say in the Armenian churches.

The Committee celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide has worked out a program of events which will be organized in
Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh and in many other countries of the world.

The events will start from April 11. In particular, on April 18-19 in
the Armenian Academy of Science a conference of Armenian scientists
will be held, and on April 20-21 in Yerevan an International
conference will take place with the theme Gravest Crime, Gravest
Challenges; Human Rights and Genocideâ=80=9C, in which most remarkable
scientists, state and political bodies, artists and journalists will
take part.

On April 23 in the Yerevan Opera House a memory evening will be held,
and on April 24 in the St. Grigor Lousavorich Cathedral an ecumenical
mess will be celebrated with the participation of spiritual leaders of
different religions.

On April 24 in Yerevan and Nagorno Karabakh people will honor the
memory of the Armenian Genocide victims with a moment of silence, and
all the morning bells of all the Armenian churches will ring.

On those April days in Armenia and other places exhibitions, musical
and theatrical plays, film shows and other events will be organized
dedicated to that tragic part of the Armenian history.