ASALA AND ‘UKHT ARARATI’ UNION OF FORMER POLITICAL PRISONERS AND FREEDOM-FIGHTERS AGAINST INITIATIVE BY SYDNEY UNIVERSITY DOCTOR ARMEN KAKAVYAN
ArmInfo
2009-02-10 15:21:00
ArmInfo. Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) and
"Ukht Ararati" (Oath of Ararat) union of former political prisoners
and freedom-fighters have come out with an indignant protest against
the initiative by Sydney University Doctor Armen Kakavyan.
Earlier A. Kakavyan apologized for the actions by ‘ASALA’ that resulted
in innocent victims. However, Turkish and Azerbaijani media distorted
the given initiative interpreting it as ‘apology to Turks’. A. Kakavyan
has already refuted the given interpretation as well.
However, the above organizations demanded Kakavyan to name the
instigators of such a strange initiative. ‘It is a brazen attempt
to justify a criminal and present him as an innocent victim hereby
criminalizing the arbiter of justice. Both the instigator and Kakavyan
have commited crime by propagating genocide with confidence that
the instigator will not be exposed and with hope for the protection
of the western justice. But crimes against humanity have no period
of limitation and everyone who planed, committed, and propagated
a crime must be brought responsible as well as those who are still
enjoying the bloody spoil of their predecessors. Western democracy
has to think well and take measures to prevent new crimes against
humanity by punishing for the previous crimes and liquidating their
aftermaths’, the statement says.
The authors of the statement urge Kakavyan to name the instigators:
‘Armenian justice can guarantee Kakavyan’s life if he refuses from the
given order in public and apologizes to the victims of the Genocide of
1915-1923 and their successors that had to spread across the world, as
well as if he applies to the law- enforcement and name the instigator
who made him commit a crime’.