Thousands of Armenians filed through the Genocide Memorial in Yerevan today to commemorate the 90th anniversary of mass killings by Ottoman Turks.
A silent procession headed by President Robert Kocharian laid
flowers at an eternal flame as Armenia's chief clergymen sang an
emotional Gregorian Apostolic requiem service beneath the baking sun.
In the run-up to the anniversary, Armenia has pulled out all the stops in an effort to make Turkey acknowledge the massacres as
genocide.
The events being commemorated are the mass expulsion and mass deaths of Christian Armenians in what was then the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
