5 Things You Should Know About the Armenian Christian Genocide

By Brandon Showalter, Opinion writer and social commentator Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Armenia's Prime Minister Resigned on Monday

People attend a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, April 24, 2015 | (Photo: Reuters / David Mdzinarishvili)

This year, the Middle Eastern nation is marking the anniversary of the genocide on the heels of some notable political unease with its prime minister, Serzh Sargsyan, resigning after days of protests in the streets.

According to the BBC, on Monday "Opposition supporters accused Sargsyan, who was made prime minister last week after serving 10 years as president, of clinging to power."

His ouster comes following a decade of cycles of demonstrations largely comprised of young people in their 20s and 30s.

Sargsyan's spokesman, Hovhannes Nikoghosyan, said: "I think his resignation is a clear demonstration of a democracy in force. It's not that every demonstration in every corner of the world leads to the resignation of the authorities."