Tel-Chai Nation: Armenia marks 108th memorial of WW1 genocide by Islamic Ottoman empire

This coming as Azerbaijan's made threats against the country:

Armenia on Sunday observed the 108th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide with a procession of 10,000 torchbearers marching through the capital city of Yerevan.

Some of those torches were then employed to burn the national flags of Turkey and Azerbaijan, a sign of extremely tense relations between Armenia and those two countries.

The Armenian Genocide, recognized by many historians as the first of the 20th Century’s terrible campaigns to systematically exterminate an entire people, began on April 24, 1915, with mass arrests of Armenian leaders and intellectuals by the Ottoman Empire, the precursor to the modern Turkish government.

The Ottomans commenced deporting Armenians, who they portrayed as a subversive threat to their efforts in World War I, in huge numbers across brutal terrain. Many were incarcerated in concentration camps. By the time this act of ethnic cleansing was complete, some 90 percent of the Armenian population in Turkey was gone — and up to 1.5 million of them were dead. [...]

Armenia held its 108th anniversary commemoration at a time of mounting tension with Azerbaijan. The two countries have contested the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region for decades, building up to a brief but intense conflict in 2020 that ended with Azerbaijan taking control of much of the territory. Pashinyan was almost unseated by public protests over concessions he made to Azerbaijan in a Russian-brokered deal to end the war.

Sporadic fighting broke out again in September 2022, and the situation may have once again reached the brink of war on Sunday, as Azerbaijan established a militarized border checkpoint on the only road connecting the enclave of Armenian Christians living in Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia.