Armenia Attractions

A place to stop and remember

Advantages: Important historical sight, easy to understand, dramatic architecture
Disadvantages: Difficult to find on first visit

...the memorial - known in Armenian as 'Tsiternakaberd' - was completed. Each year on 24 April Armenians visit the memorial to lay flowers and remember the dead. To this day the Republic of Turkey does not recognise the event as a genocide. The Turkish government has always maintained that Armenians were killed but that 'genocide' is not the correct description because the deaths were not planned as a programme of extermination of an entire race. Within ...
...was a considerable movement for Armenian autonomy which was backed to some extent by the Russians and the British. They tired to use diplomatic means to have reforms imposed but in actual fact the treatment of the Armenian population deteriorated. At the same time, the power-mad Ottomans wanted to increase their Empire yet further, right across to central Asia where some Turkic tribes already lived. In the territory in between, however, were the ...

fizzytom 07.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Armenian Genocide Museum, Yerevan