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Tsitsernakaberd (Armenian: Ծիծեռնակաբերդ) is a memorial for the victims of the Armenian Genocide. It is on a hill overlooking Yerevan, Armenia. Every year on April 24, Armenians gather here to remember the victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide that took place in the Ottoman Empire carried out by the Turkish government. In 1965 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Genocide after a million people demonstrated for 24 hours; the demonstrations are now known as the 1965 Yerevan Demonstrations. In response, the genocide memorial construction began in 1966 and it was completed in 1968. In Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, crowds of people walk to the Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Memorial to lay flowers at the eternal flame.

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  • Ցեղասպանության թանգարան

    Aerial view of the memorial and the museum

  • Memorial trees planted at the Tsitsernakaberd (2)

    Row of memorial trees planted by foreign dignitaries

  • Closeup of memorial trees at the Tsitsernakaberd

    Closeup of a memorial tree

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    Catholicos Karekin II and Archbishop Rowan Williams during a memorial ceremony

  • Tsitsernakaberd24.04.2009

    2009

  • Mother Arising Out of the Ashes

    Mother Arising Out of the Ashes, memorial statue (2002)

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Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Tsitsernakaberd para niños

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