ARMENIAN GENOCIDE EXPRESSED NOT ONLY VIA MASS SLAUGHTER
Pan Armenian News
20.04.2005 07:05
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Genocide was perpetrated against Armenians not only
in 1915, but also throughout 1906-1923, and it expressed not only in
mass slaughter, Academic Advisor of the Commission for Commemoration of
Heroes and Victims of the Holocaust of Yad Vashem Yehuda Bauer stated
during an international conference in Yerevan devoted to the 90-th
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915. In
his words, the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust differ from
others in the aspect that when these were perpetrated the world powers
could not or did not wish to prevent them. Specifically, Mr. Bauer
considers that the world could not prevent the Holocaust, however
it did not wish to prevent the Armenian Genocide, as at the time
Turkey was the ally of the Austrian-Hungarian Block in World War I.
The recent genocides, specifically in Rwanda and Darfur were not but
could be prevented, the Israeli scholar considers. In his opinion, to
prevent future genocides it is necessary to avoid academic discussions,
as scientists can only define this misdeed. Meanwhile, Bauer believes
that the international community needs to activate efforts to form
legal mechanisms to prevent and reduce the risk of future genocides,
as it is impossible to fully rule out their repetition. The first real
step in this respect was the creation of the international court in
Rome, which then was moved to Hague, the reporter stated. The formation
of legal mechanisms to be used by international structures in order to
reduce the risk of future genocides should be the next step. Touching
upon Turkey’s denial stance in the issue of the Armenian Genocide,
Mr. Bauer stated that it is not so important for Turkey to officially
acknowledge the misdeed. In the scholar’s opinion, it is more important
that there are many people in the Turkish society, who qualify the
occurrence as a genocide and censure the past Turkish authorities,
Arminfo news agency reported.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress