Armenians in Tehran honour Armenian Genocide victims
Thousands of Armenians gathered in Saint Sarkis Cathedral in central Tehran this morning to commemorate victims of the killings of ethnic Armenians by Ottoman Turks over a century ago. They had come to raise their voice and join the calls of Armenians of Armenia and Artsakh, Javakh, Western Armenia and Armenians around the world.
“They had come to remind the world that Armenian people are again fighting a life-and-death battle against the same enemies, against those who slaughtered our ancestors in Van, Ani and Mush, Zeitun and in the desert of Deir ez-Zor, and today the same wild hand wants to continue its atrocities in Artsakh. But our enemies cannot and will not be able to do it, our nation will not allow them to do it. Artsakh is not merely a territory for us, Artsakh is associated with its people who have lived there for centuries, created civilization and left an inscription on each stone,” Tehran-based “Aras" weekly reports.
On the evening of April 23, Tehran’s church of St. Sargis hosted a liturgy followed by a wreath laying ceremony, with ambassadors, high-ranking officials and a number of local Armenians attending to commemorate the 1,5 million innocent victims of the atrocity.
