Jim Costa, United States Representative for California’s 16th Congressional District, on Wednesday visited the Armenian Genocide memorial in Yerevan’s Tsistsernakaberd park to pay tribute to the big tragedy’s victims.
Accompanied by Samvel Nikoyan, the head of the US-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship Group, the congressman laid flowers to the monument and bowed to the eternal fire to respect the martyrs, reports the parliament’s press service.
Visiting later the Genocide Museum-Institute, Mr Costa toured a hall dedicated to Aurora (Arshaluys) Mardiganyan, an American-Armenian actress and a Genocide survivor who settled in the United States after narrowly escaping a slaughter in the Ottoman Empire. He watched posters of the movie “Auction of Souls” featuring Mardiganyan.
At the end, the congressman left a note in a book for honorable guests.