A major torchlit procession was held in the Armenian capital Yerevan on Saturday 23 April, the eve of the 107th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

The march began in the main square (seen from the air at the start of the video), went through the city and ended at the city's Armenian Genocide Memorial.

As well as burning torches, marchers carried the flags of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh (known in Armenia as Artsakh), as well as the flags of countries that have recognised the Armenian Genocide.

At the end of the march, opposition politician and deputy speaker of the National Assembly, Ishkhan Saghatelyan, spoke on stage. In the video he shouts: "We are the masters of Karabakh."

In front of the stage a group of people burned the flags of Azerbaijan, which in 2020 recaptured large parts of the breakaway ethnic Armenian region known as Nagorno-Karabakh, and Turkey, which supported Azerbaijan.

A torchlight procession also took place also in the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, Stepanakert, attended by current and former local leaders.

Last year Joe Biden became the first US president to declare formal recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

“Beginning on 24 April 1915 with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople by Ottoman authorities, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred or marched to their deaths in a campaign of extermination,” Biden’s said in a statement at the time.

A major torchlit procession was held in the Armenian capital Yerevan on Saturday 23 April, the eve of the 107th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

The march began in the main square (seen from the air at the start of the video), went through the city and ended at the city's Armenian Genocide Memorial.

As well as burning torches, marchers carried the flags of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh (known in Armenia as Artsakh), as well as the flags of countries that have recognised the Armenian Genocide.

At the end of the march, opposition politician and deputy speaker of the National Assembly, Ishkhan Saghatelyan, spoke on stage. In the video he shouts: "We are the masters of Karabakh".

In front of the stage a group of people burned the flags of Azerbaijan, which in 2020 recaptured large parts of the breakaway ethnic Armenian region known as Nagorno-Karabakh, and Turkey, which supported Azerbaijan.

A torchlight procession took place also in the 'capital' of Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh, attended by current and former local leaders.