Armenian Genocide Memorial Cross Put 35 Meters Deep in the Mediterranean Sea

• 05.11.2015, 14:03
•  Diaspora

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An Armenian Genocide Memorial Cross dedicated to the Centennial of Genocide was put beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Green beach resort, in the gulf of Junieh, north of Beirut, armeniangenocide100.org reports. The cross put 35 meters deep in the sea commemorats the memory of those, who perished drowning in rivers and sees during the Genocide of 1915 committed by the Ottoman Turkey.

As the source reports, this was organized under the patronage of the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Lebanon, and the Armenian Genocide Centenary Central Committee of Lebanon, and His Holiness Nercess Bedros 19th Patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church in Beirut, Octopus Team diving club owned by Antranig or Toni Haddad, a descent of the Armenian Genocide survivor.