LIVE: March to Tsitsernakabert Memorial on Armenian Genocide anniversary

People have been marching to the Tsitsernakabert Memorial Complex in Yerevan since early Wednesday morning to commemorate the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

The genocide began with mass arrests of Armenian intellectuals and activists in Constantinople on 24 April 1915. An estimated 1.5 million Armenians were massacred or starved to death in the following months and years.