RA TOP LEADERS LAID WREATHS TO MEMORIAL TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS
PanARMENIAN.Net
24.04.2008 13:34 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today, on April 24, the top leadership of the
Republic of Armenia and the Armenian Apostolic Church laid wreaths
to the Memorial to Armenian Genocide victims.
Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan,
National Assembly Speaker Tigran Torosian, government and parliament
members honored the memory of 1.5 million of Armenians slaughtered
in the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century.
Catholicos of All Armenians, His Holiness Garegin II held a service
for the commemoration of the Dead.
On April 24, Armenians throughout the globe mark the 93rd anniversary
of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Mass arrests of
the Armenian intellectual, religious, economic and political elite
started in Constantinople on that very day in 1915 what resulted
in entire annihilation of a whole pleiad of outstanding Armenian
cultural workers. Writers, actors, musicians, teachers, doctors,
lawyers, journalists, businessmen, political and religious leaders
were detained till the end of May 1915 without being incriminated
anything. In the course of several weeks some 800 celebrated Armenians
were arrested in Constantinople. By the end of summer there had been
few of them left alive.
The Armenian Genocide was recognized by Russia, France, Lebanon,
Uruguay, Cyprus, Argentina, Greece, Belgium, Sweden, Slovakia,
Vatican, Germany, Lithuania, House of Commons of Canada, the House of
Representatives of the Netherlands, National Council of Switzerland,
Lower House of the parliament of Italy and Sejm of Poland as well as
many states of the U.S.