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DENIALISM : PETITION AGAINST THE ROGUE DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
CCAF PETITION
> SIGN HERE <
to Simonetta Sommaruga
Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations of France
In a decision of 17 December 2013, which will remain an absolute
disgrace in the history of the European Court of Human Rights, this
jurisdiction which has never so little deserved its name, decided
to give reason to Dogu Perincek, the zealous and determined denier
of the Armenian Genocide by proposing to condemn Switzerland for its
infringement of freedom of expression !
Co-founder of the Talaat Committee (the Turkish "Hitler"), a backroom
created by Ankara to export the denialist theses of Turkey to Europe
and beyond, Dogu Perincek had appealed against a decision pronounced
by the Swiss courts, fining him twice for his denialist statements.
At present imprisoned in Turkey for taking part in the attempted
coup by the Ergenekon organisation (which did not prevent Ankara
from defending him before the ECHR in this particular case), Dogu
Pericenk had indeed claimed that the "Armenian Genocide" was an
"international lie" at a series of meetings in Switzerland. These
statements, offensive against the memory of the victims and defamatory
against their descendants, were condemned under the Swiss law on the
repression of denialism. The European Court of Human Rights, to which
he had appealed, is therefore considering condemning Switzerland, in
the name of an inconsequential reading of the freedom of expression
and a restrictive interpretation of human dignity. This jurisdiction,
in a judgement that is just as irresponsible as it is grotesque, thus
gave its support to the denialist propaganda on the Armenian Genocide.
And this in accordance with the following arguments* : 1) There
would not be any consensus on the facts since only about twenty
of the 190 States have recognised them (whereas the international
community of historians having seriously dealt with this issue is
unanimous on their qualification as genocide and that a number of
lobbies, including that of the Turkish government, repeat that it
is not for the Parliaments to legislate on history...). 2) There
has not been any international judgement qualifying them (whereas
the Treaty of Sèvres signed in 1920 by the European Powers provided
for the Judgement of the persons responsible for this crime against
humanity, treaty replaced in 1923 by that of Lausanne in which these
same European Powers, in an attitude typical of Munich before its time,
were to abandon any idea of rendering Justice to the Arminian people
in the name of new relations with Kemalist Turkey). 3) The notion of
genocide would remain unclear and therefore offer scope for debate
(whereas the crime of genocide is clearly established by the Rome
Statute establishing the International Criminal Court and that the very
concept of genocide was forged by Raphaël Lemkin, starting precisely
from the extermination of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire).
At one year from the commemorations for the hundredth anniversary of
this crime against humanity, as it was named on 24 May 1915 by France,
England and Russia at a time when the word genocide had not yet been
created, the ECHR has just assassinated the one and a half million
victims of the "Young Turk" government for the second time. And this
following an unfair trial in which only the Turkish party was able
to plead, while the Arminian party and those who defend its universal
just cause were not invited to the proceedings.
Switzerland, which, in addition, decided on 10 October to reinforce
its strategic partnership with Turkey, has until 17 March to lodge
an appeal against this unfair judgement which, in sentencing it,
also opens the road to an unbridled propagation of denialism.
Through this petition, we should like to call on the Swiss authorities
to lodge an appeal against this judgement before the Grand Chamber of
the ECHR and, in so doing, allow an open debate to be held and a fair
trial on a essential issue for our times and our European identity, by
giving other States, including France, the possibility of being heard.
Furthermore, such an appeal would allow the Arminian party, excluded
from the hearing until now, to be equally represented with Turkey,
which would bring a minimum balance to this "justice" which, until now,
has only been based on one side of the scales.
Conseil de coordination des organisations armeniennes de France
*http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/fra/pages/search.aspx ?i=001-139276
dimanche 12 janvier 2014, Jean Eckian ©armenews.com
http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=96242
CCAF PETITION
> SIGN HERE <
to Simonetta Sommaruga
Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations of France
In a decision of 17 December 2013, which will remain an absolute
disgrace in the history of the European Court of Human Rights, this
jurisdiction which has never so little deserved its name, decided
to give reason to Dogu Perincek, the zealous and determined denier
of the Armenian Genocide by proposing to condemn Switzerland for its
infringement of freedom of expression !
Co-founder of the Talaat Committee (the Turkish "Hitler"), a backroom
created by Ankara to export the denialist theses of Turkey to Europe
and beyond, Dogu Perincek had appealed against a decision pronounced
by the Swiss courts, fining him twice for his denialist statements.
At present imprisoned in Turkey for taking part in the attempted
coup by the Ergenekon organisation (which did not prevent Ankara
from defending him before the ECHR in this particular case), Dogu
Pericenk had indeed claimed that the "Armenian Genocide" was an
"international lie" at a series of meetings in Switzerland. These
statements, offensive against the memory of the victims and defamatory
against their descendants, were condemned under the Swiss law on the
repression of denialism. The European Court of Human Rights, to which
he had appealed, is therefore considering condemning Switzerland, in
the name of an inconsequential reading of the freedom of expression
and a restrictive interpretation of human dignity. This jurisdiction,
in a judgement that is just as irresponsible as it is grotesque, thus
gave its support to the denialist propaganda on the Armenian Genocide.
And this in accordance with the following arguments* : 1) There
would not be any consensus on the facts since only about twenty
of the 190 States have recognised them (whereas the international
community of historians having seriously dealt with this issue is
unanimous on their qualification as genocide and that a number of
lobbies, including that of the Turkish government, repeat that it
is not for the Parliaments to legislate on history...). 2) There
has not been any international judgement qualifying them (whereas
the Treaty of Sèvres signed in 1920 by the European Powers provided
for the Judgement of the persons responsible for this crime against
humanity, treaty replaced in 1923 by that of Lausanne in which these
same European Powers, in an attitude typical of Munich before its time,
were to abandon any idea of rendering Justice to the Arminian people
in the name of new relations with Kemalist Turkey). 3) The notion of
genocide would remain unclear and therefore offer scope for debate
(whereas the crime of genocide is clearly established by the Rome
Statute establishing the International Criminal Court and that the very
concept of genocide was forged by Raphaël Lemkin, starting precisely
from the extermination of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire).
At one year from the commemorations for the hundredth anniversary of
this crime against humanity, as it was named on 24 May 1915 by France,
England and Russia at a time when the word genocide had not yet been
created, the ECHR has just assassinated the one and a half million
victims of the "Young Turk" government for the second time. And this
following an unfair trial in which only the Turkish party was able
to plead, while the Arminian party and those who defend its universal
just cause were not invited to the proceedings.
Switzerland, which, in addition, decided on 10 October to reinforce
its strategic partnership with Turkey, has until 17 March to lodge
an appeal against this unfair judgement which, in sentencing it,
also opens the road to an unbridled propagation of denialism.
Through this petition, we should like to call on the Swiss authorities
to lodge an appeal against this judgement before the Grand Chamber of
the ECHR and, in so doing, allow an open debate to be held and a fair
trial on a essential issue for our times and our European identity, by
giving other States, including France, the possibility of being heard.
Furthermore, such an appeal would allow the Arminian party, excluded
from the hearing until now, to be equally represented with Turkey,
which would bring a minimum balance to this "justice" which, until now,
has only been based on one side of the scales.
Conseil de coordination des organisations armeniennes de France
*http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/fra/pages/search.aspx ?i=001-139276
dimanche 12 janvier 2014, Jean Eckian ©armenews.com
http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=96242