IoS letters, emails & online postings (28 October 2012)

IoS letters, emails & online postings (28 October 2012)

Sunday 28 October 2012

The proximity of two Holocaust articles in last week’s paper was
striking. Nick Clegg in “Those who know of war argue most forcefully
for peace” rightly reminds us of the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau,
and writes that “survivors have bravely told their stories and
historians have unearthed the truth”. This description applies too to
Armenian survivors of Turkish and, as you report in “Photograph links
Germans to 1915 Armenia genocide”, German atrocities perpetrated
against Armenians in the First World War.

Turkey remains an ally of the United States and the UK, with interests
in countries that include Syria. Yet there has never been an admission
of guilt or apology for the destruction of a million Armenians
slaughtered by the Ottoman Turks during the First World War. In 2005,
the International Society of Genocide Scholars wrote an open letter
noting that the “Armenian genocide is corroborated by the
international scholarly, legal and human rights community”. This
injustice demands admission and apology by the Turkish government.

James Derounian

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

From: A. Papazian