A team of divers from Octopus Team with a cross that was later placed at the bottom of the sea.BEIRUT, Lebanon—Under the patronage of the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Lebanon, and the Armenian Genocide Centenary Central Committee of Lebanon, and His Holiness Nerces Bedros IXX, Patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church in Beirut, a diving club owned by Antranig “Toni” Haddad, a descent of an Armenian Genocide survivor, organized the placement of an Armenian Genocide Memorial Cross beneath the sea on Sunday near Green Beach Resort, in the gulf of Junieh north of Beirut.
The Armenian cross has been placed 35 meters deep in the Mediterranean Sea, dedicated to the Memory of those Armenians who perished drowning in rivers and seas during the Armenian Genocide, escaping rape, abduction and torturous death by Turkish officers in 1915.
