TRADITIONAL TORCH-LIGHT PROCESSION IN YEREVAN COMMEMORATES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
21:13 ~U 23.04.13
Before marching to the Memorial to Armenian Genocide victims
(Tsitsernakaberd), numerous young people that gathered in Yerevan’s
Freedom Square burned Turkey’s national flag.
That action inaugurated a traditional torch-light procession the
Youth Union of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun
(ARF-D) and Nikol Aghbalyan Union organized on the eve of the 98th
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
Among the participants are Karen Avagyan, Coordinator of Board of
Trustees, Youth Foundation of Armenia, and an Armenian Parliament
member, as well as members of other youth political and public
organizations.
ARF-D Supreme Body member and ARF-D parliamentary group member Vahan
Hovannisyan is participating in the procession as well.
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