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Human Rights Defender of Armenia: Impunity creates and justifies new crimes

ARMINFO
Armenia –
Alina Hovhannisyan

ArmInfo. Tomorrow is the 107th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, but justice has not still been restored.  This is stated in the statement of Human Rights Defender  of Armenia Kristina Grigoryan on the occasion of the 107th  anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

"The rights of murdered and mutilated men, women and elderly,  orphaned children, of Armenians forcibly displaced from their homes,  and of people who have been subjected to inhuman, degrading treatment  and punishment due to their ethnicity and religion have not been  restored. Many of them died, carrying all those brutal scenes in  front of their eyes, they died missing their relatives and homeland,  expecting that at least future generations would witness the  restoration of justice.

The denial policy of indisputable events, which Turkey has been  conducting for more than a century, continues to challenge the  effective implementation of international law aimed at establishing  universal norms for the condemnation, prevention and prosecution of  crimes against humanity.

Efforts to establish and improve human rights, the rule of law, and  universal international mechanisms for justice newly promoted after  World War I continue to be overshadowed by this condemnable policy of  Turkey.

Impunity creates and justifies new crimes.

Unfortunately, the dangers of genocidal policy based on ethnic and  religious hatred has not disappeared for our people. The gravest and  most recent evidence is the documented Azerbaijani-Turkish joint  crimes against ethnic Armenians during the 2020 war. The  state-sponsored propaganda of ethnic and religious hatred and the  criminal acts are still carried out by Azerbaijani state against the  Armenians of Artsakh, aiming to annihilate Artsakh from its native  people, destroy the monuments and samples of the centuries- old  Armenian culture, erase the Armenian traces, to make impossible the  life of Armenians in their homeland.

Today we pay tribute to the memory of the innocent victims of the  Armenian Genocide, reaffirming that condemnation of crime, punishment  of the guilty, and restoration of justice can prevent future crimes,"  the statement reads.  

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