More than a century after the Armenian genocide that claimed more than a million lives in a series of massacres by the Ottoman government in the shadow of World War I, the Armenian Genocide Commemoration Committee of Connecticut will mark the event with a virtual ceremony Saturday.
Although Connecticut doesn’t have any more direct living survivors of the genocide, their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will honor the deaths on April 24, as the state has done for decades.
“One would ask, what difference does it make if it was 106 years ago? It’s so far away. The victims who are the survivors are all gone,” Harry Mazadoorian, a member of the committee, said.