07.10.2022


Members of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial on October 5.

The guests were welcomed by the Deputy Scientific Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Edita Gzoyan, who presented the history of the creation of the Memorial. She gave the delegation the history of the three khachkars placed in the Tsitsernakaberd area in memory of the Armenians who died in the massacres organised by the Azerbaijani government in the cities of Sumgait, Kirovabad (Gandzak), and Baku in the last century, and the stories of the five freedom fighters buried in front of Hushapat (Memory Wall) during the Artsakh war, stressing that what happened was a continuation of the Armenian Genocide.

They laid flowers at the Eternal Fire and observed a minute of silence in memory of the innocent martyrs of the Armenian Genocide. The guest also toured the Memory Alley and watered the fir planted by YMCA back in 2015.

The guests also visited the Armenian Genocide Museum accompanied by Lusine Abrahamyan and toured the temporary and permanent exhibitions there. Then Vardan Hambardzumyan, executive director of the European Alliance of YMCA, gave a lecture in the conference hall of AGMI.