YEREVAN. – Aurora Prize contenders and guests of the ceremony on Sunday visited Memorial to the Armenian Genocide victims (Tsitsernakaberd).

The guests were accompanied by Aurora initiative co-founders Ruben Vardanyan and Noubar Afeyan as well as member of Aurora Selection Committee member Vartan Gregorian (PHOTOS).

This year’s finalist’s are Fartuun Adan and. Ilwad Elman, Founders of the Elman Peace and Human Rights Centre,  Jamila Afghani, Chairperson of the Noor Educational and Capacity Development Organization, Afghanistan, Dr. Tom Catena, Surgeon at the Mother of Mercy Hospital in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan, Muhammad Darwish, Medical Doctor at the Madaya Field Hospital, Syria, Denis Mukwege, Gynecological Surgeon and Founder of the Panzi Hospital, The Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Director of Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Hayk Demoyan told about the history of the Memorial Complex.