Armenia: 24 April 2008 Roundup
Global Voices Online has now been updated with a post rounding up some of the commentary surrounding the 24 April Genocide commemoration.
Yesterday marked the 93rd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the deaths of approximately 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. Often described as the first Genocide of the 20th Century, the Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin invented the term in the 1940s with the Armenian and Jewish Holocausts in mind.
Every year on 24 April, a date marking the roundup of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in what is now Istanbul, Armenians commemorate the massacres and deportations worldwide. In Yerevan, this is particularly the case with hundreds of thousands marching up to the Tsitsernakaberd memorial overlooking the capital to lay flowers and pay their respects.
- Published:
- 04.25.08 / 1pm by Onnik
- Category:
- Armenia, Blogs, Demonstrations, Genocide, Global Voices, History, News Briefs, Opinion, Rallies, Turkey
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