In observance of 97th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) President Bako Sahakyan, accompanied by the country’s senior officials, on Tuesday visited capital Stepanakert’s Memorial, and placed flowers to the monument that eternalizes the memory of the Genocide’s innocent victims.  

Also, the NKR President Bako Sahakyan issued a statement in connection with 97th anniversary of the Genocide.

“In the history of our people, April 24 has become the day of pain and slaughter, the day of hardship and grief that unites all Armenians for the remembrance of the 1.5 million innocent victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. It unites against evil and crime, violence and terrorism that must be recognized and condemned by humanity. We are grateful to all those who are with us today and who raise their voice for the triumph of justice.

We come together today to say that now the Armenians are strong and protected, and they will do everything to ensure that such terrible crimes would never be repeated.

The Turkish people must turn this dark page in their history, and free their generations from this heavy and humiliating legacy. It is an imperative that cannot be evaded,” the NKR President’s message reads.