Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day is held on April 24. This event in the third decade of the month April is annual. 
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Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day is a public holiday in Armenia and the Republic of Artsakh and is observed by the Armenian diaspora on 24 April. It is held annually to commemorate the victims of the Armenian genocide of 1915. It was a series of massacres and starvation of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottomans. In Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, hundreds of thousands of people walk to the Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Memorial to lay flowers at the eternal flame.
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