UN convention on Prevention and Punishment of Genocide Crime is 65 years
17:17, 14 December, 2013
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 14, ARMENPRESS. The issues raised in `The Beginnings
of Genocide: An account of the Armenian Massacres in World War I’ book
which was published in the year of the accession of the convention on
the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide by the United
Nations in 1948 are contemporary even now, 65 years later. `Some
readers have already guessed, what I mean, that is, the atrocities
carried out by the Turkish people against Armenians thirty years
ago. But some will say they did not think like that. And here is the
tragedy of our times. We forget too quickly. Yesterday the victims
were only the Armenians, today they are solely the Jews, and also the
Poles and other European peoples. And who will be tomorrow?’ Gutman
wrote, Armenpress” reports citing the website of the National Academy
of Sciences of the Armenian Genocide Museum -Institute.
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