By Cresencio Rodriguez-Delgado

On a still Saturday morning, an entourage of Armenian officials arrived at Fresno State to visit the campus’ unique Armenian Genocide Memorial and show admiration for the region.

Though he had visited Fresno before, it was the first time Armenia’s Consul General Armen Baibourtian had seen the memorial in person since it was built in 2015.

Baibourtian was expected to meet later in the day with the mayor and visit an Armenian church. On Sunday, he was set to give a keynote speech at a Fresno State Armenian Studies banquet, where students would be honored with scholarships.

In the minutes that Baibourtian visited at Fresno State, Honorary Consul for Armenia in Fresno Berj K. Apkarian explained to him all about the monument, and everything that went into its construction, like the fact that Armenian soil sits under the monument.

He explained that the spiral ring atop the monument represents the “jolt” of the 1915 genocide where 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered.

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