ARMENIA: THE NINETIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1915 GENOCIDE BY TURKEY REMEMBERED AT THE MEMORIAL TO VICTIMS IN YEREVAN.
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ARMENIA: THE NINETIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1915 GENOCIDE BY TURKEY REMEMBERED AT THE MEMORIAL TO VICTIMS IN YEREVAN.
- Title: ARMENIA: THE NINETIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1915 GENOCIDE BY TURKEY REMEMBERED AT THE MEMORIAL TO VICTIMS IN YEREVAN.
- Date: 24th April 2005
- Summary: (BN10)YEREVAN, ARMENIA (APRIL 24, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS: OF YEREVAN CENTRAL SQUARE. 0.06 2. CU: BILLBOARD READING " ARMENIAN GENOCIDE - 90 - RECOGNITION, CONDEMNATION, PREVENTION" 0.12 3. WS: BILLBOARD WITH PHOTOGRAPHS OF SURVIVORS OF 1915 EVENTS. 0.18 4. WS/EXTERIOR: OF THE MEMORIAL TO GENOCIDE VICTIMS, PEOPLE QUEUING TO GET INSIDE. 0.24 5. SCU: SMALL GIRL WITH FLOWERS SITTING ON HER FATHER'S SHOULDERS. 0.31 6. MV: PEOPLE ENTERING THE MEMORIAL. 0.38 7. WS: OF PEOPLE LAYING FLOWERS TO THE ETERNAL FIRE. 0.45 8. MV: PEOPLE LAYING FLOWERS TO THE FIRE. 0.57 9. CU: FLOWERS. 1.02 10. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) EDUARD GALASTYAN, YEREVAN RESIDENT, SHOWING HIS PASSPORT WITH PHOTOGRAPHS OF RELATIVES WHO FLED THE COUNTRY IN 1915, SAYING: "My parents ended up in the American orphanages because not a single country stood up to protect us. Germans who now pretend to be our friends happened to be arms suppliers and organizers of these massacres, Englishmen who are now try to express their condolences had also played their part in those events. Who had helped us? When people were fleeing, Syrians were the ones who helped the most." 1.46 11. WS: ETERNAL FIRE WITH FLOWERS AROUND IT. 1.53 12. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) ( Russian) GOAR BUDAKYAN, YEREVAN RESIDENT, SAYING: "Its the worst what the Turks have done to us. They behaved like wild beasts, killing women and children." 2.15 13. TRACK: ARMENIAN PRESIDENT ROBERT KOCHARIAN ENTERING THE MEMORIAL, LAYING FLOWERS. 2.28 14. WS: OF THE CEREMONY. 2.35 15. SCU: ARMENIAN PRESIDENT ROBERT KOCH ARIAN AND THE HEAD OF THE ARMENIAN GREGORIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH GARIGIN II PRAYING. 2.41 16. WS/TILT UP: OF THE CEREMONY. 2.52 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: YEREVAN, ARMENIA
- Country: Armenia
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- Story Text: Armenia mourns 1.5 million victims of what they call
genocide against their people.
Hundreds of thousands of people holding flowers
poured towards the memorial to the victims of 1915 genocide
on on a high hill in the Armenia's capital Yerevan on
Sunday (April 24) to commemorate the 90th anniversary of
the mass deportations and killings of their people in Turkey.
People laid flowers and wreaths to the eternal fire.
Many said they hoped to see a million and a half Armenians
come out into the streets on Sunday - as many as are
believed to have died during a period of killings and
deportations by the Ottoman Empire that began in 1915.
From the top of the hill the crowds could see the
heights of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey, the region where
Armenia says its people were slaughtered in a deliberate
genocide during the chaos surrounding the disintegration of
the Ottoman Empire.
Local families mixed with members of Armenian
diaspora, who had flown from Europe and the United States
to remember family members and friends who had died between
1915 and 1923.
" My parents ended up in the American orphanages
because not a single country stood up to protect us" - said
75-year-old Eduard Galastyan showing photographs of his
mother, aunt and brother.
" Its the worst what the Turks have done to us. They
behaved like wild beasts, killing women and children" - said
70-year-old Goar Budakyan, standing outside the memorial.
Armenia wants the world - and Turkey - to admit that
what happened was genocide. But Ankara says the number of
those killed is grossly inflated and that Armenians were
casualties of World War One and not victims of genocide.
However, Turkeys October 3 start date for European
Union entry talks has ratcheted the decades-old argument up
the political agenda. France in particular, home to an
influential 400,000-strong Armenian community, has promised
to seek a Turkish admission of genocide.
Armenia and Turkey has no diplomatic relations.
Turkey shut the border in 1993 out of solidarity with ally
Azerbaijan, which was then fighting a territorial war with
Armenia.
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