A group of about sixty people, from all backgrounds, commemorated the centenary of the genocide on two major slaughterhouses Armenian sites, one 50 km from Harput, near a village called Tchunguch, and the other near Batman (Sasun region), in south-eastern Anatolia. These celebrations were sponsored by the municipality of Diyarbakir and local branches of the Organization for Human Rights in Turkey (IHD), and organized by the Gomidas Institute of London