Tsitsernakapert

Tsitsernakapert (in Armenian: Ծիծեռնակաբերդ, another possible orthography: tzitzernakaberd ) is a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the government Young person-Turks between 1915 and 1916, located on one of the hills of the capital Armenian, Erevan. Tsitsernakapert means the fort with the swallows in Armenian ( tsitsernak = swallow, PERT = extremely ).

History

The April 24th 1965, at the time of the 50e birthday of the genocide, more than one million people met in Erevan during 24 hours. Following this popular dash, the Armenian government of the time convainct Moscow in 1966 to finance a small memorial. Small on the plans, the monument proves to be colossal at the end of work in 1968 and in front of the accomplished fact, the secretariat of the PC can only take note.

Structure

The monument is composed of several parts:

a granite point 44 height meters represents the rebirth of the Armenian nation.
12 steles of granite laid out in circle symbolize the 12 lost provinces today, Turkish S. In the medium, 1,5 m of depth, the eternal flame is the place of collection. Every April 24th, of the million people deposit a flower there.
Along the be leading to the stele and the point, long wall a 100 meters carries the inscriptions of all the principal Armenian villages of the Ottoman Empire in which the massacres took place.
more recently, since 1995, the political personalities (in the broad sense) of the whole world plant a tree and sign their some words on a gilded plate on other side of the alley.
In 1995 also opened a small underground circular museum at the entry of the cars. One finds stereotypes of German photographers there (allies with Turkey during the First World War) and several publications reporting the events of the time.

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