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The Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day is observed annually on April 24. In 1915, the Ottoman Empire began the mass extermination of Armenians. Several years of mass destructions took the lives of about 1.5 million Armenians. Every year on this day, hundreds of thousands of people in Yerevan climb a memorial hill and lay flowers at the eternal flame. Thanks to the Armenian diaspora, many monuments to Genocide victims are built around the world.

On the Tsitsernakaberd hill in 1965 began the construction of the memorial to the innocent victims, which was completed in 1967. In 1995, was also opened the Armenian Genocide Museum, dedicated to those terrible events. The park also has an alley where foreign statesmen plant trees in memory of the victims of the genocide.

In 2015, the centenary of the Armenian Genocide was celebrated.