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Published on March 22, 2008
THOSE KILLED IN MARCH 1 EVENTS COMMEMORATED IN YEREVAN
- Yesterday, hundreds of Yerevan residents commemorated those killed in March 1 and 2 disorders. The demonstrators marched toward the square adjacent to the French Embassy where 8 people were killed and 200 injured. They were holding portraits of the killed and arrested, candle and flowers tied with black ribbons. The police allowed only 5 people to approach the monument to Alexander Myasnikyan and lay flowers in memory of the victims. No clashes between the action participants and policemen were fixed. A similar action is expected today, on March 22, IA Regnum reports.
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Armenian wrote:
At least you had the courage to call this activities a commemoration to the killed armenians on march 1-2.
Unfortunately " Hayots Ashkar " kept calling them " unlawful".
what a shame.
Albert wrote:
They are Genocide victims. A genocide perpetrated by the criminal regime of Robert and Serj which chased out of the country more than a million and now kills people in the streets.
Robert Kocharian and Serj Sarkisian should be tried in the international court of justice for crimes against humanity.
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Today in Armenian history- 1793 The first publication of Ghazar Parpetsi in Venice.
- 1853 K. Marx wrote an article entitled the "Nations in Turkey". He mentions the exactions on the Armenians in Western Armenia.
- 1905 Birth of Georgiu Verjil, Romanian - Armenian pianist, composer and author.
- 1913 Birth of Sergey Adavelian, an Engineer and Colonel. He participated in the creation and experimental works of the Tu -104, 114, 124 and 134 aircraft. He was awarded four Soviet and four French prizes.
- 1915 Exchange of memoranda amongst Russia's Foreign Affairs Ministry and the British and French Embassies in Petrograd. In one month, the three states signed a confidential agreement stating that after the allies' victory, the Turkish Black Sea straits and Constantinople would revert to the Russian Empire. There was no word about Western Armenia.
- 1922 Birth of Professor Lorees Kalashian, Doctor of Philosophy and Chess Grandmaster of the USSR.
- 1925 Myasnikyan (Secretary of the Communist Party of the Transcaucasian Countries Committee), Mogilevsky (President of the Extraordinary Commission of the Transcaucasus (Cheka), and Atarbekyan (notorious Secret Police murderer in Armenia) are assassinated in an air-crash planned by Stalin.
- 1943 Organization of the "Haghtanak" (Victory) partisan detachment in Lvov, from Armenian prisoners-of-war headed by Sergey Harootyunian.
- 1954 First Publication of "Vozni" a satirical newspaper.
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