The Armenian Genocide of 1915

Armen T. Marsoobian explores the complex history of one of the 20th-century’s worst and most neglected crimes against humanity.

The Eternal Flame, at the Armenian Genocide Memorial, at Tsitsernakaberd, Yerevan.In the late evening and early dawn hours of April 24-25th, 1915, angry voices and shouts of protest reverberated throughout the streets of Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire's imperial capital. In the days ahead this phenomenon would recur and soon spread across the Empire's vast stretches.

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