On the Remembrance Day of the Armenian Genocide, April 24, 2019, two of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative Co-Founders, Noubar Afeyan and Ruben Vardanyan, along with supporters of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, visited the Tsitsernakaberd memorial and laid flowers to commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide. 
 

Every year, on April 24, thousands of Armenians and non-Armenians from all over the world stop by the Tsitsernakaberd memorial to pay homage to the victims of Armenian Genocide.

Over a century ago, on April 24, 1915, hundreds of Armenian Intellectuals were arrested in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (nowadays Turkey), sent into exile and slaughtered. Those atrocities were part of the plan to exterminate the Armenian people in their homeland. In 1915-1923, approximately one and a half million Armenians were killed in what was the first state-planned genocide of the 20th century.