Tribute to the memory of March 1 victims

Emil Lazarian 2020
Public Radio of Armenia
March 1 2020


Today Armenians pay tribute to the ten people killed as a result of clashes between police and protests on March 1, 2008.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan laid a wreath at the memorial to Alexander Myasnikyan, where the main events unfolded.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was initially expected to lead a march dedicated to the 12th anniversary of the events, but the march was cancelled after the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in the country.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS