Last March 1 defined Armenia’s future, yet unfolding. Recollections and reflections are the focus of this one-year anniversary.

The day brought power to some while crippling the aspirations of others. And while a nation convulsed from the poisonous ambitions of a few and the unrewarded loyalty of thousands, 10 families were shredded.

Ten Armenians were killed by Armenians in the capital of Armenia, for reasons that served no good. Some were oppositionists. Some supported the government. Some had no political bias.

These victims did not earn martyrdom. There were no Hrant Dinks or Gurgen Markaryans among them. No State honors. Only a nation disgraced.

The deaths were marked less by bravery than by ill fate. They were as common as your father or brother or son, and died absurd deaths. They should not be deified. But neither should they be forgotten.

Tigran Abgaryan
Armen Farmanyan
Grigor Gevorgyan
Samvel Harutyunyan
Hovhaness Hovhannisyan
Zackar Hovhannisyan
Tigran Khachatryan
Gor Kloyan
David Petrosyan
Hamlet Tadevosyan