Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
According to this site, it is on April 24, ninety-one years ago, that "300 Armenian leaders, writers, thinkers and professionals in Constantinople (present day Istanbul) were rounded up, deported and killed." The same day, in Constantinople, "5,000 of the poorest Armenians were butchered in the streets and in their homes."
The murder of approximately 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1917 is not officially recognized as genocide by countries like the United Kingdom, the United States, Israel, Georgia and the Ukraine. It is, however, generally accepted that systematic killing, based on ethnicity, was involved. Most official waverings seem to be prompted by politics, not by legitimate doubt as to the facts.
, and under the title of
Mr. Olmsted's Neighborhood, the following was wrote:
Today is Armenian Genocide Day, and as I live in Little Armenia, the streets around my house are packed with cars covered in Armenian flags. Armenians dressed in black will hold a "parade" (for lack of a better word--it sounds a tad festive for the occasion) to commemorate the slaughter of a million souls by the Turks.
Today is April
24th. The day we commemorate the martyrs of the Armenian massacre of 1915. These are not fictional people. These are my grandfathers family. My great grandparents, and their kids. MY FAMILY! This is the reason I dont have any immediate family, from my grandfathers side. We're Vanetzi's. He was one of the 200 survivors ...from a city of 100,000. So, to all those, who say...."...give it a rest man, it was almost 100 years ago" I say, this is MY FAMILY you're talking about!
I dont know who is going to read this, perhaps no one.
Well at least I did, and I hope that more people will do ... It's the only feeling of family that we have, by remembering our common experience, and the feelings that we all have towards this barbaric uprooting from our homeland and our families!
Another Armenian , Angelishis wrote an article about April 24 commemoration today, titled 1915 Armenian Genocide - learn about history , it reads :
On the night of April 23-24 1915, hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders were summarily arrested in the capital of the Ottoman Empire . The massive round-up resulted in the imprisonment of most Armenian politicians, priests, scientists, lawyers, doctors and writers of the Ottoman Empire . Shortly thereafter, the prisoners were deported to the inner provinces where nearly all of them were murdered by the authorities. Approximately 5000 community leaders were eliminates in this fashion. The Armenians were alarmed by the arrest of their community leaders. The Armenian deputies of the Ottoman Parliament expressed their anxiety to the government. These two deputies were themselves deported and assassinated.
April 24 each year since 1915 represents the symbolic date of the Armenian Genocide. That day is marked as a commemoration day for the victims of the Armenian Genocide. Many events and protests are organized throughout the world.
The blogger of "
Inhale, Exhale, Repeat," in honoring her family and the victims of the Armenian Genocide, wrote the article titled
Today: 91st anniversary of the Armenian Genocide 
In honor of my Grandmother who became an orphan from this ordeal. She lost all of her family at the age of 5. In any web search for her last name she is the only person that comes up. In honor of my Grandfather who had to travel across Turkey dressed in disguise as a woman to Aisa in order to be hired by the American Red Cross and chartered on a ship to America. In honor of his 1st wife who died during the death march. In honor of his 2nd wife who died of Tuburculosis. In honor of my dead father and my ancestors and the legacy of my last name.
I light a candle on April 24th.
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