Staff of South Caucasus Railway company pay tribute to Armenian  Genocide victims 

ArmInfo.  The staff of the South Caucasus Railway company, headed by General Director Alexey Melnikov, visited the Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex on April 24.  As stated in the SCR report, the staff honored the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide by laying flowers and wreaths at the memorial.

April 24, 2025, the Armenian people celebrate a mourning date - the  110th anniversary of the first genocide in the history of mankind. On  April 24, 1915, more than two hundred representatives of the Armenian  intelligentsia - poets, musicians, publicists, editors, lawyers,  doctors, deputies were arrested in Constantinople by order of the  Turkish authorities. All of them were sent into exile and brutally  exterminated. The extermination of the Armenian intelligentsia was  part of a systematic, diabolical plan to destroy the Armenian people  in their homeland. A total of 1.5 million Armenians were  exterminated, and hundreds of thousands were deported. This was the  first genocide of the 20th century, planned and carried out by the  state. On April 24, 1965, demonstrations were organized in Soviet  Armenia demanding recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Thus, the  wall of silence that had been created around this issue during the  Soviet era was destroyed. 

However, that recently the issue of international recognition of the  Armenian Genocide has fallen out of the priority areas of the foreign  policy agenda of the Armenian authorities, which has caused a sharply  negative reaction from the opposition, which has introduced a draft  law on criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide. The fact of  the Armenian Genocide is recognized by many countries of the world  and international organizations, including the USA, Russia, France,  Canada, Cyprus, Belgium, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Germany,  Lithuania, Poland, etc., as well as the European Parliament and the  World Council of Churches.