April 24 Tsitsernakaberd Visitors Asked to Pay Respects Also to Victims of Japan Earthquake

Upon an initiative of the Yerevan-based International Cultural Bank (ICB), a monument symbolizing friendship between the Armenian and Japanese people has been placed outside the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan, said ICB project coordinator Levon Ivanyan and chair Karapet Zakoyan at a press conference in the Armenian capital today.

The ICB representatives urged those visiting the Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Monument on April 24 to stand for a moment in front of the new monument and place a single flower from those in their hand at the monument to commemorate the victims of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake followed by a tsunami of immense scale which struck the east coast of Japan’s Tōhoku region on Mar. 11.  Read more... (259 words)

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