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    Ads in Swiss papers inform about ICHR ruling on Armenian Genocide denial

    12:03 08.03.2014


    Armenian Genocide, ECHR, Switzerland

    The International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (A
    Division of the Zoryan Institute) produced a full-page informational
    advertisement that appeared in Switzerland's leading German and French
    language newspapers Neue Zürcher Zeitung on March 6 and Le Temps on
    March 7. The advertisements were the product of collaboration between
    the Switzerland Armenia Association and the IIGHRS. Links to these
    articles in English, French, and German follow this article, Massis
    Post reports.

    The purpose of these ads was to raise awareness with the Swiss public
    that the December 17, 2013 ruling of the Perinçek vs. Switzerland case
    by the European Court of Human Rights, promotes racism and violence
    against Armenians in Turkey and elsewhere. The statement further
    argued that the Swiss government has a moral responsibility to appeal
    this ruling and defend its laws against racism.

    Seeing that to date the Swiss Government had not filed an appeal
    against the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights, the IIGHRS
    felt that it is crucial to educate the public about this critical
    legal and moral issue. Switzerland was not a bystander to the Armenian
    Genocide in 1915, and it should not be a bystander and allow its
    denial today. In this respect, the Institute endeavored to raise
    awareness of the facts of the Armenian Genocide through the speeches
    of the President of Switzerland in 1922 to the League of Nations, and
    in the words of the current President about the action needed against
    denial of the Holocaust or any other genocide. President Burkhalter
    noted that it is the duty of the Swiss people to remind people, 'of
    the facts and the historical reality', and stressed that Switzerland
    does not want to just 'pay lip service, but to take concrete action'
    to fight denial. Through the juxtaposing of these two historical
    speeches, the Institute explained that while it does not disagree with
    the right to freedom of speech, it takes issue with the ECHR's highly
    debatable statements about the Armenian Genocide that went far beyond
    the Court's mandate or competence.

    http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/03/08/ads-in-swiss-papers-inform-about-ichr-ruling-on-armenian-genocide-denial/

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