Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide on April 24

Genocide and the promise of ‘never again’ 

April 24 is not simply a date. It marks a beginning and a warning.  In 1915, in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, Armenian intellectuals and community leaders were arrested in Constantinople. It was the opening act. What followed was the Armenian Genocide: a systematic campaign of deportation, death marches, starvation and mass killing that […]