Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex
Hillside memorial of twelve inward-leaning basalt slabs circling an eternal flame, with a soaring split stele beyond.
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This guide to the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex in Yerevan opens with a question of numbers: the eternal flame sits exactly one and a half meters below the walkway, echoing a death toll that historians have never agreed on, ranging from six hundred thousand to well past two million. It looks at the twelve leaning basalt slabs around the flame and the provinces they are said to represent, asking why the count does not quite match the historical record either. It also traces the decades in which the Soviet government refused to acknowledge the genocide at all. Walk the hundred-meter wall of town and village names beside the flame slowly.
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