05.12.2025


On December 5, a delegation led by US Brigadier General Chris McKinney visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial.

The guests were welcomed by Edita Gzoyan, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI), who guided them to the Armenian Genocide Memorial, presenting the history of its creation. The AGMI Director also referred to the three khachkars (cross-stones) placed in the Tsitsernakaberd area in memory of the Armenians who fell victim to the massacres organized by the Azerbaijani government in the cities of Sumgait, Kirovabad (Ganzak), and Baku at the end of the last century, as well as the stories of the five freedom fighters buried in the section in front of the Memory Wall during the Artsakh struggle for survival, emphasizing the connection between those events and the Armenian Genocide.

General Chris McKinney laid a wreath at the memorial immortalizing the victims of the Armenian Genocide, after which the guests laid flowers at the Eternal Fire and observed a minute of silence to honor the memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide.

Edita Gzoyan guided them to the Memory Wall, behind which, in special niches, small jars are interred containing soil taken from the graves of a number of foreign public figures, politicians, intellectuals, and missionaries who raised their voices of protest against the massacres and genocide of Armenians perpetrated by the Turkish government in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Speaking about the pro-Armenian activities of Henry Morgenthau and Clara Barton, she emphasized that thanks to their work, American society was well aware of the massacres of Armenians taking place in the Ottoman Empire, and that the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the US was also a tribute to their memory. Expressing gratitude for the visit, AGMI Director Edita Gzoyan presented books about the Armenian Genocide to General Chris McKinney.