People visiting the Armenian ‘Genocide’ Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia.
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Commemorations of the 1915 Armenian genocide kicked off early Sunday across Lebanon. The Traffic Management Center tweeted that a demonstration took off from the Antelias Square to the town’s main highway. The
Armenian Tashnag Party also held a ceremony in the Metn district east
of Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported. Several
officials, including Tashnag leader MP Hagop Pakradounian, former social
affairs minister Salim al-Sayegh and Free Patriotic Movement MP Ibrahim
Kanaan took part in the event.
April 24 marks 101 years since the start of the genocide, recognized by millions of Armenians across the world. Around
1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered by the Ottoman Turks during WWI,
an event widely considered as “the first genocide in the 20st century,”
as has been described by Pope Francis.