Armenia: Hundreds of thousands commemorate Armenian genocide 101st anniversary

Azerbaijan and Turkish flags were set ablaze as hundreds of thousands took on the streets of Yerevan on Saturday, to commemorate the 101st anniversary of the Armenian massacre.
People from all across Armenia are said to have arrived in the capital where a torchlight procession took place. The crowd waved the flags of Armenia and that of the disputed region of Naghorno-Karabakh.
The anniversary is often a source of controversy between Armenia and Turkey. Last year Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan released a statement demanding Turkish authorities recognise the incident as "genocide," a request that the Turkish government has refused to accommodate.
Commemorations of the Armenian Genocide have taken place on April 24 every year since the 1920s, marking the date in 1915 when hundreds of Armenian intellectuals were arrested in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople, before being executed. In the years that followed ethnic Armenians were displaced, deported or placed in concentration camps by Ottoman authorities. Between 600,000 and 1.8 million people are believed to have died during the period.