99 - all you should know about the Genocide April, 2014 | Page 17

It is simply a folk legend. The 44-meter
spire that rises upwards at Tsitsernakaberd
does not symbolize the large and small
peaks of Mt. Ararat, Eastern and Western
Armenia, or the Armenian and Russian
nations. Nor do the 12 huge slanted stones
set around a circle 30 meters in diameter
represent the 12 Turkish vilayets – there
could have been 6 or 9 them instead. The
Wall of Mourning was erected because
there were houses on the left side of
the Genocide Memorial. The long wall
was simply used to separate them from
the monument complex dedicated to
the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
In reality, the designers had completely
different symbols in mind…