Remembering Armenia’s losses

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, on April 24.

A man places a candle in front of the Brandenburg Gate to build the year 1915 during a demonstration after an ecumenical service remembering the Armenian 'slaughter' at the Berlin Cathedral Church in Berlin, Germany, on April 23.

A Lebanese priest of Armenian descent passes by human remains of people killed in 1915 inside an Armenian church as many in Lebanon marked the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, in Antelias, north of Beirut, Lebanon, on April 24. (Bilal Hussein/Associated Press)

A visitor examines portraits of famous Armenian people during the opening ceremony of the Museum of National Culture of Armenia on the territory of the temple complex of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Moscow, Russia, on April 22. (Sergie Ilnitsky/EPA)

A picture released by the Armenian Genocide Museum Institute dated 1915 purportedly shows soldiers standing over skulls of victims from the Armenian village of Sheyxalan in the Mush valley, on the Caucasus front during the First World War.

Armenian people gather around a chasm in the mountain during an anniversary ceremony at a site called "Dudan" near Diyarbakir, and believed to be a mass grave of the Armenian genocide on April 22.

Armenians hold images from the Armenian genocide during a ceremony to commemorate the 100th anniversary, in Jerusalem, Israel, on April 24. (Oded Balilty/.Associated Press)

Demonstrators hold candles and pictures of Armenian victims during a commemoration for the victims of mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in Istanbul on April 23.

People wearing gags gather in central Moscow on April 24 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. (Dmitry Serebryakov/AFP/Getty Images)

Thousands of Lebanese of Armenian descent, holding banners and Armenian flags, march to mark the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, in Antelias, north of Beirut, Lebanon, on April 24. (Bilal Hussein/Associated Press)

An Armenian holds a placard with a sign reading "1915", the year of mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks on a city street in Yerevan, Armenia, on April 24. (Sergei Grits/Associated Press)

Armenian honor guard soldiers lay a wreath at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in Yerevan on April 24 during a commemoration ceremony for the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images)

Agasi Vartanyan gestures from inside a glass enclosure built at the St. Leon Armenian Cathedral in Burbank, Calif., on April 22 where he is in the midst of a 55-day fast, surviving only on water, in memory of the victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide.

An Armenian police officer carries an icon featuring canonized victims of massacres out of memorial to Armenians killed by the Ottoman Turks, during a ceremony to mark the centenary of the mass killings, in Yerevan, Armenia, on April 24. (Sergei Grits/Associated Press)

A woman lights candles in memory of the victims of mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks at the Armenia's main cathedral in Echmiadzin on April 23. (David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)

The Armenian female choir of St. Geghard Cloister sings during an Ecumenical service marking the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces, at the cathedral in Berlin on April 23. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)

A member of the Armenian Apostolic Church participates in a canonization ceremony for victims of the Armenian genocide at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, a complex that serves as the administrative headquarters of the Armenian Apostolic Church on April 23 in Vagharshapat, Armenia.

A woman wiped away tears during a service at Trinity Church in Boston on April 23. (Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe)

A member of the Armenian community placed a wreath at the memorial monument on April 24 in Jerusalem's Old City, during an event to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915. (Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images)

Priests carry an icon to attend a religious service in Echmiadzin, the religious center of the Armenian Church outside the capital Yerevan, Armenia on April 23. On Friday, April 24, Armenians will mark the centenary of what historians estimate to be the slaughter of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks, an event widely viewed by scholars as genocide.

Members of a choir sing during a canonization ceremony for victims of the Armenian genocide at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, a complex that serves as the administrative headquarters of the Armenian Apostolic Church on April 23 in Vagharshapat, Armenia. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

Armenian Apostolic Church leaders conduct a canonization ceremony for victims of the Armenian genocide at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, a complex that serves as the administrative headquarters of the Armenian Apostolic Church on April 23 in Vagharshapat, Armenia. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

Armenians take part in a mass marking the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces, in Jerusalem's Old City on April 24.

A member of the Armenian community holds a placard during a demonstration on April 24 infront of the Turkish consulate in Jerusalem, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915. (Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images)

People attend a flower laying ceremony at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial on April 24 in Yerevan, as part of the Armenian genocide centenary commemoration.

Luminaries were on the front steps at Trinity Church in memory of genocide victims during the Armenian Genocide Centennial Commemoration held in Boston on April 23. (Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe)