US Delegation Pays Tribute at Armenian Genocide Memorial

On September 12, a delegation led by Brendan Henrehen, Head of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs of the US State Department, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex. This is reported by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.

AGMI Director Edita Gzoyan also referred to the stories of the three khachkars placed in the Tsitsernakaberd area in memory of the Armenians who fell victim to the massacres organized by the Azerbaijani government in the cities of Sumgait, Kirovabad (Ganja), and Baku at the end of the last century, and the five freedom fighters buried in the section opposite the Memorial Wall during the years of the Artsakh war, emphasizing the connection between what happened and the Armenian Genocide.

Mr. Brendan Henrehen laid a wreath at the memorial eternalizing the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide, after which the guests laid flowers at the eternal flame and observed a minute of silence in memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide.

Edita Gzoyan accompanied them to the Memorial Wall, behind which, in special niches, are small urns filled with soil taken from the graves of a number of foreign public and political figures, intellectuals, and missionaries who raised their voices of protest against the massacres of Armenians and the genocide carried out by the Turkish government at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.

Telling about the pro-Armenian activities of Henry Morgenthau and Clara Barton, she emphasized that thanks to their work, American society was well aware of the massacres of Armenians taking place in the Ottoman Empire, and that the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the United States was also a tribute to the memory of these people.