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Genocide Remembrance Day (local name: Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր) is a National Holiday in Armenia , observed on April 24 . It is held annually to commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide during the government of the Young Turks , from 1915 to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire . It is commemorated by Armenians in dispersed communities around the world. In Yerevan , the capital of Armenia , crowds of people walk to the Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Memorial to lay flowers at the Eternal Flame . The date commemorates the arrest, on 24 April 1915 , of hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders, most of whom would be executed, which was a precursor to the ensuing events. For a description of the events, and the considerable controversy concerning them, see Armenian Genocide . REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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