Statehouse ceremony today to mark anniversary of Armenian genocide

Providence Eyewitness News, RI
April 22 2005

PROVIDENCE, R.I. Ceremonies are in store at the Rhode Island Statehouse
today to mark the 90th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

The Rhode Island Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide begins
with a memorial service at 7 pm at Saints Vartanantz Apostolic
Church in Providence. Participants then will march to the Statehouse,
followed by a ceremony in the governor’s Stateroom.

About one-point-five million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman
Turks between 1915 and 1923.