[ppi] [ppiindia] Armenians mark 91st anniversary of mass killings in Ottoman Empire

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http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/24-04-2006/79475-armenians-0


      Armenians mark 91st anniversary of mass killings in Ottoman Empire 
     
     

      Hundreds of thousands of Armenians on Monday streamed to a hilltop 
memorial in the capital, Yerevan, to mark the 91st anniversary of mass killings 
of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. 

      Armenia accuses Turkey of the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians 
between 1915 and 1919, when Armenia was under the Ottoman Empire. Turkey 
rejects the claim and says Armenians were killed in civil unrest during the 
collapse of the empire. 

      Crowds of Armenians as well as expatriates living abroad laid flowers and 
wreaths at the vast Genocide Victims Memorial overlooking Yerevan. 

      "Today we are paying tribute to the victims of the genocide of 
Armenians," President Robert Kocharian said in an address to the nation. "The 
Ottoman Empire and its successor state bear full responsibly for this crime." 

      The killings began before April 24, but memorial services are held on 
this date because it is the anniversary of the day in 1915 when Turkish 
authorities executed a large group of Armenian intellectuals and political 
leaders, accusing them of helping the invading Russian army during World War I. 

      The commemoration events started late Sunday when several hundred members 
of youth groups staged a burning of Turkey's national flag and then marched 
through the city with torches and banners reading "The blood of 2 million 
Armenians is on Turkey's conscience" and "Genocide is the shame of humanity, 
and first of all of Turkey." 

      Armen Tumanyan, a computer programmer in Yerevan, took his 4-year-old 
son, Karen, to participate in the commemoration ceremony. "He doesn't 
understand yet what is happening, but I am sure he will come here with his own 
children  he will never forget his visit to the Memorial." 

      The former Soviet nation of Armenia has pushed for the United States and 
other nations to declare the killings a genocide. Many countries, including 
Russia and France, have officially recognized the event as genocide, along with 
some U.S. states, reports 
     


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