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Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenian: Մեծ Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր Mets Yegherrni zoheri hishataki or) or Armenian Genocide Memorial Day [5] is a public holiday in Armenia and is observed by the Armenian diaspora on 24 April. [5] [6] It is held annually to commemorate the victims of the Armenian genocide of 1915.
The Armenian genocide [a] was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of others, primarily women and children.
The new building was funded by Eduard and Pamela Avedisian in memory of their parents Khoren and Shooshanig Avedisian who were survivors of the Armenian genocide from the town of Kharberd in Western Armenia. [3] The structure of the complex is as follows: Kindergarten. Primary school housed in the Krikor and Beatrice Bilezikian building. Middle ...
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The Workshop for Armenian/Turkish Scholarship (WATS) is a group of scholars which is dedicated to transcending the nationalist historiography on the Armenian genocide and answering related questions.
Yet another April 24 is upon us. As Fresno Bee readers and Fresno community members know, during this time Armenians and non-Armenians in Fresno and worldwide commemorate one of the massive human ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 February 2025. Governments' recognition of the Ottoman empire's mass killing of Armenians as genocide The eternal flame at the center of the twelve slabs, located at the Armenian Genocide Memorial complex in Yerevan, Armenia Armenian genocide recognition is the formal acceptance of the fact that the ...