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    GEOFFREY ROBERTSON TO KEYNOTE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CENTENARY COMMEMORATION IN SYDNEY

    14:32, 03 Apr 2015
    Siranush Ghazanchyan

    The Armenian Genocide Centenary Committee of Australia (AGCC) has
    announced that leading international jurist, Geoffrey Robertson QC,
    will deliver the keynote address at the Armenian Genocide Centenary
    National Commemoration Evening at the Sydney Town Hall on Friday,
    April 24th 2015.

    Robertson, who launched his latest book An Inconvenient Genocide: Who
    now remembers the Armenians?at the National Press Club in Canberra in
    2014, will visit Australia after taking part in the "No to Genocide"
    Global Forum to be held in Yerevan, Armenia.

    The Inconvenient Genocide: Who now remembers the Armenians,
    published by Random House, is a groundbreaking publication where
    Robertson presents a compelling argument based on fact, evidence
    and his knowledge and expertise of international law, proving beyond
    reasonable doubt that the horrific events that occurred from 1915 to
    1923 do indeed constitute genocide.

    High-profile and notable dignitaries will join the Armenian-Australian
    community in commemorating the Centenary of the Armenian Genocide,
    which was perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923.

    Vache Kahramanian, a member of the AGCC stated: "The Committee has
    been planning the Centenary commemorations for the past two years to
    respectfully honour the 1.5 million victims of this unpunished crime."

    "Mr. Robertson is a worthy guest to keynote such an occasion."

    Geoffrey Robertson QC is a leading human rights lawyer and a former
    UN War Crimes judge. He has been counsel in many notable Old Bailey
    trials, has defended hundreds of men facing death sentences in the
    Caribbean, and has won landmark rulings on civil liberty from the
    highest courts in Britain, Europe and the Commonwealth. Robertson is
    the Head of Doughty Street Chambers, a Master of the Middle Temple,
    a Recorder and visiting professor at Queen Mary College, University
    of London.

    Robertson recently represented the Republic of Armenia, alongside Amal
    Clooney and Gevorg Kostayan in the European Court of Human Rights case
    "Perincek v Switzerland".

    http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/04/03/geoffrey-robertson-to-keynote-armenian-genocide-centenary-commemoration-in-sydney/

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