Album Name: Commemoration of Armenian Genocide in Yerevan (2011),   20 Photos,      Posted on:4/29/2011

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Photo-report by Armine Pilosyan.

24th April 2011, marked the 96th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

People all over the world went to memorials to pay tribute to more than one and half million innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide.

In the preceding evening a march with torches took place in Yerevan to protest the Turkish denial of the Genocide and demand recognition by the world.

On the following day, 24 April, young and old, Armenians and foreigners went to the Genocide Museum-Institute to place flowers around the eternal flame, in memory of the victims.