Never forget

April 24th marks the centenary of the beginning of the Armenian genocide when the Ottoman Turks rounded up, deported and killed up to a million and a half Armenian citizens,  on forced marches where they died of hunger and exhaustion,  in massacres and in concentration camps. Turkey has consistently denied that this was genocide, pleading instead that it was simply a consequence of war. 
There's a brief summary of the history here with some survivors retelling  their memories. Many emigrated to start new lives elsewhere in the world.

The  forget-me-not flower has been adopted as the symbol of the centenary year.
The black center represents the sufferings of 1915, and the dark aftermath of the Armenian Genocide. 
The five petals represent the five continents where survivors of the genocide found new homes. 
The yellow represents light, creativity, and hope for the future.

The national musical instrument of Armenia is the dukduk which produces some of the most haunting music imaginable, the exiles' lament for their lost homeland, in particular Mt Ararat.
 An example can be heard here.

An earlier blip of mine recorded a visit to the memorial to the genocide at Cardiff, the first such commemoration in the UK.