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From: Mira Yardemian
Public Relations Director
Haigazian University
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Khatchig Mouradian Lectures on Lemkin and the Armenian Genocide
Beirut, June 24, 2008- On Monday June 23, 2008, the Armenian Studies
Department at Haigazian University hosted a lecture by Khatchig
Mouradian entitled, "Raphael Lemkin and the Armenian Genocide: How the
victims of the Medz Yeghern prepared the way for the adoption of the UN
Genocide Convention.", in the Media Center of the University.
Mouradian, the Editor of the Boston-based newspaper, the Armenian
Weekly, and member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars
(IAGS), was introduced by the University’s Student Life Director,
Antranig Dakessian, who considered him as being one of the best elements
of the young generation in the Lebanese Armenian community.
The lecture highlighted the influence the Armenian massacres had on
Raphael Lemkin, the author of the term genocide who worked tirelessly
for the adoption of the Genocide Convention. Mouradian stressed that
Lemkin had the Armenian Genocide in mind while he was conceptualizing
the term and defining the perimeters and criteria of the genocidal
process.
Mouradian also talked about the role the Armenian communities and the
Armenian media played in the adoption of the UN Genocide Convention and
its ratification by various countries. The term Genocide was first used
in the Diaspora newspapers in the late 1940’s and Shavarsh Missakian was
the first one to use the term in Paris-based newspaper "Haratch",
Mouradian explained.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
