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A monument to the innocent victims of the Yezidi people


Architect: A. Mkhitaryan

Year: 2015


The memorial was built in 2015 by the initiative of  Yerevan Municipality and Amo Sharoyan (the president of  "Media-Shangal" Yezidi National Union NGO). 

The height of the monument is about 4 meters.

On the pedestal, it is written the following sentence:

"In memory of the innocent victims of the Yezidi people in 1915". This is the first monument in the world dedicated to the innocent victims of the Yezidi people.

At the beginning of the 20th-century monument was dedicated to the victims of the Yezidi people in Ottoman Turkey. 


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