Mass Murder Cannot be Justified : Vladimir Putin at Armenia Genocide Ceremony

Yerevan: President Vladimir Putin said today that Russia mourned the victims of the Armenian genocide and that mass killings could never be justified.

"There is no and cannot be any justification for mass murder of people," Putin said at a Yerevan ceremony to mark 100 years since the start of the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces. "Today we mourn together with the Armenian people."