DAVID M. HERSZENHORN: “The western part of the Armenian people, who for millenniums had lived in their homeland, in the cradle of their civilization, were displaced and annihilated under a state-devised plan,” Mr. Sargsyan said, “with direct participation of the army, police, other state institutions, and gangs comprising criminals released from the prisons specifically for this purpose. Around 1.5 million human beings were slaughtered merely for being Armenian,” he said. The legacy of the mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey that began in 1915 is still a source of bitter enmity and political disputes in Asia Minor, and beyond. More here.