April 24 - Light a Candle

APRIL 24: Please visit http://candle.direct.am (site has been down) and light a candle for the 1.5 million victims of Armenian Genocide. April 24th is a day when Armenians all over the world will commemorate this horrible tragedy because it was on that day in 1915 when 300 Armenian leaders, writers, thinkers and professionals in Constantinople (present day Istanbul) were rounded up, deported and killed. Pretty sick, huh? Also on that day in Constantinople, 5,000 of the poorest Armenians were butchered in the streets and in their homes.