Armenians remember victims of mass killings

 
By The Associated Press
Published: April 25, 2010

YEREVAN , Armenia — Hundreds of thousands of Armenians laid flowers Saturday at a monument to the victims of mass killings by Ottoman Turks, marking the 95th anniversary of the start of the slaughter. President Barack Obama called it "one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century.”

Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I. T...


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