Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day- 24 April 1915- 2015

Date:  24 April 2015

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day-   24 April 1915- 2015

  

My tribute to our Armenian Friends in Glendale who shared this day with us and reliving in hope, faith and peace....They show us that no matter what, they will move on and make the best out of life

The day to pay tribute to the mass deaths

Of the Red Sunday – Garmir Giragi!

When the blood shed by Ottoman Government

On Armenian intellectuals and leaders

Constantinople and everywhere in Armenia

Leaders and the followers deported

And after constant torture assassinated

April 24, the day Commemorated

As Genocide Remembrance Day

By Armenians across the world

Systematic extermination of minority

Torments inside the historic homeland

Close to 1.5 million people killed

With no mercy, no tolerance and peace

Wholesale killing of able-bodied men

Through massacre and army conscripts

To forced labor and deportation

Of women, children, elders deprived

Of food, water and pushed to rape and death

Genocidal policy targeted by extermination

Resulting in Armenian Diaspora around the world

Acknowledged as modern genocide

With goals to eliminate Armenians

Killing within the legal parameters

Define the systematic exterminations

The Ottoman rule started the merciless acts

Reforms and voices raised from all sides

Went into deaf ears and inhumane societies

Compatriots living inside the Empire

Suffered the ideological differences

Though the common goals was the same

To achieve better social human conditions

To implement the promised reforms

False allegations of abuses exaggerated

Dealing with Armenians as they didn’t wish

Government went ahead with oppression and massacre

The fight against the regiments took to its helms

Brought the excesses to the attention of those rising

Violent breaking of the rally for reforms continued

It was the victory of the great assassin, the bloody sultan

Actions and new reforms never materialized for fruition

Due to conflicting political and economic interests

The Armenians were never in league with the enemy

Their goals and hopes were to live in harmony and peace!

 May all those wonderful souls

Rest in Peace

100 Years 

But memories will live on

Hopes

Faith 

Mercy

& 

Peace

will continue for ever!