100 balloons and wreaths with candles symbolizing the 100th anniversary of the genocide

Sukhum. April 24. Apsnypress. Rite of canonization took place on the eve, on April 23 in Armenia, in Holy Echmiadzin, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II and Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram held a ceremony. 

On this day all Armenian schools of Abkhazia have lessons of memory. In continuation of the commemoration today at 11 am started mourning ceremony: a solemn procession with flowers held along the waterfront to the Monument Muhajirs, and to the sea surface will be omitted wreaths with candles. In the evening, in Gagra's sky will be released 100 balloons symbolizing the 100th anniversary of the genocide. 

As a result of the genocide perpetrated by the Young Turks, only in 1915-16 were killed 1.5 million people. About 600 thousand of Armenians became refugees. According to historians, at the same time were built far-reaching plans to create a "big tour". Nationalists were planning to join the Empire Caucasus, North Caucasus, Crimea, Volga region and Central Asia. 

Genocide by definition is the physical destruction and the deportation of people including the movement of the civilian population under conditions that lead to certain death. Progressive public opinion of the world condemned the heinous crime of Turkish thugs who tried to destroy one of the oldest civilized nations of the world. 

Public and political figures, scientists, culture workers in many countries denounced genocide qualifying it as a grave crime against humanity. The basis of the legal instruments of genocide laid down the basic principles developed by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which judge major war criminals of Nazi Germany. In the future, the United Nations adopted a number of decisions regarding the genocide, the main ones are the Genocide Convention (1948) and the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity adopted in 1968. In 1989, the Supreme Council of the Armenian SSR adopted the law on genocide, genocide of Armenians in Western Armenia and Turkey condemned as the worst crime. The Declaration of Independence of Armenia adopted by the Supreme Council of the Armenian SSR on August 23, 1990 proclaimed: "The Republic of Armenia supports the international recognition of the Genocide in Ottoman Turkey and Western Armenia". Allied  mass killings of Armenians for the first time in history have been recognized as crimes on May 24, 1915 in a joint declaration of Great Britain, France and Russia.