Armenian Martyrs’ Day – 93 Years Come and Gone
It’s Tuesday and I’m still recovering from the weekend. It’s not what you think – it wasn’t a typical college kid’s weekend of partying. I was protesting. Late Saturday night, I drove home to CT and woke up early the following morning to go into New York City, to the gold-domed St. Vartan Cathedral, headquarters of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church. Following Divine Liturgy, I boarded a bus taking people to Times Square to a protest. What were we protesting? April 24, 1915 – it is a day immortalized in Armenian history. On this day, several hundred leading Armenian intellectuals were gathered in the former Ottoman capital of Constantinople, and massacred.
Thus, every April 24th is the international day of remembrance of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, an event which is still unrecognized by the United States, and of course, the perpetrators, the Ottoman Turks. Sunday was not April 24th, but it was the closest Sunday to this date, so the protest was organized for this day. I joined other Armenians, who congregated at this literal cross-road of the world, Times Square. It was a protest, and it did fulfill expectations, but was it any different than what Armenians have accomplished in the past 92 years since the Genocide?


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