‘The genocide never stopped’: 110 years later, Lebanese Armenians are still outraged

Thursday, April 24, 1915. It is 8 p.m. in Constantinople — present-day Istanbul — when the nationalist Ottoman government orders the arrest of Armenian intellectuals. During the night, dozens of journalists, doctors, professors and lawyers are detained. The following day, a second wave of arrests targets several hundred more people, who are then deported and massacred.These events mark the beginning of the Armenian genocide, planned and perpetrated by the leaders of the Ottoman Empire, now modern-day Turkey.By 1923, 1.5 million Armenians would be killed by deportations, famine and massacres.Thursday, April 24, 2025. One hundred and ten years later, Armenians continue to remember the genocide. But this year stands apart: on March 13, Armenia and Azerbaijan announced they had reached a peace agreement over Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed...