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ARMENIANS commemorated the centenary of the massacre of up to 1.5 million of their people by Ottoman forces
yesterday.
In the capital Yerevan, Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian laid a wreath at a hilltop memorial commemorating the genocide that began in 1915.
Foreign diplomats followed, each holding a yellow rose to put into the wreath.
French President Francois Hollande and Russia’s Vladimir Putin were among a half-dozen world leaders to visit for the anniversary.
Hundreds of thousands of Armenians later joined a procession to the memorial carrying candles and flowers.
Members of the Armenian diaspora also commemorated the sombre anniversary in cities around the world.
And German President Joachim Gauck, speaking at a religious service in Berlin, condemned the genocide for the first time.
Mr Gauck said that the then German empire, Ottoman Turkey’s ally in the first world war, bore “shared responsibility and possibly shared guilt for the genocide.”
