Procession of Silence: People march to Yerablur with numerous lit candles (video)
Hundreds of thousands of Armenians with burning candles in their hands marched to the Yerablur Pantheon on Sunday evening to pay respects to all Armenians who were killed on the Karabakh frontline during the large-scale military operations unleashed by Azerbaijan.
Huge crowds of people gathered at Shahumyan Square to participate in the Procession of Silence that kicked off at 7p.m.
“We are going to pay tribute to innocent victims. We need to be united,” said the participants. “It is sad to see that part of our society stay indifferent to this situation. We must come together to make the international community recognize Karabakh's independence,” said Arpine Stepanyan.
"I cannot find the right words to console the victims' mothers. I represent the third generation of Armenians who survived the [1915] Genocide. Turks and Azeris are the same. There is no difference between them. They do not understand human language and they cannot be called ‘human beings,’ said Nazik Zakaryan, a mother of two sons, who has four grandchildren to send for military service in the Armenian army.
