YEREVAN PROCESSION COMMEMORATES VICTIMS OF ARMENIAN MASSACRES
Interfax
April 26 2010
Russia
Several thousand people held a torchlight procession in Yerevan on
Friday to commemorate victims of mass killings of ethnic Armenians
in the Ottoman Empire that began in 1915.
The procession moved from the center of the capital Yerevan to the
memorial to victims of what Armenia calls an act of genocide and is
also known as the Armenian Massacres.
Before that procession participants burned down a Turkish flag,
lighting their torches from the flame.
The march was part of the annual Armenian Massacres processions that
have been held in Yerevan since 2000 and organized by the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation party, also referred to as Dashnaktsutyun.