Several hours ago I informed about a protest to be organized in Yerevan. In the entry, I suspected that there would be many people participating this year. As Associated Press reports, several thousands have participated.

(from http://www.armeniadiaspora.com/ADC/news.asp?id=769)

Photo by Onnik Krikorian. More at http://www.oneworld.am/blog/

AP reports on 28 February 2006, "Thousands of Armenians rallied in downtown Yerevan to mark the anniversary of the 1988 deaths of ethnic Armenians in rioting in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait. The violence that tore through Sumgait 18 years ago came as tensions between Armenians and Azerbaijanis soared over the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan that was agitating to become part of Armenia."