YEREVAN. – Participants of the Yerevan-hosted media forum “At the Foot of Mount Ararat” on Thursday visited Memorial to the Armenian Genocide victims (Tsitsernakaberd).
Accompanied by director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Hayk Demoyan, the journalists from different countries got familiarized with the temporary exhibition pf the museum (the main exhibition opens on April 24). They headed to the eternal flame where they laid flowers and joined hands to form a circle to commemorate the victims (photo).
One of the participants, London-based journalist Isaac Karipidis told the Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent the visit to Tsitsernakaberd was close to his heart, since he is from a family of the Pontic Greecks that faced massacres in the Ottoman Empire.
President of the International Federation of Journalists Jim Boumelha said he visited Armenia and participated in the media forum to show that reporters can really make changes.
