Lebanon’s Armenians held a protest on Friday to mark the 100th anniversary of when some 250 Armenian intellectuals were rounded up by Ottoman Turks as the first step of the genocide against them.

The protesters marched from the Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia to the town of Bourj Hammoud to demand the recognition of the genocide that was committed around the time of World War I.

Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks, in the first genocide of the 20th century.

The protesters, some hoisting Armenia’s flags, held banners calling for recognition and justice.

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