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ISRAEL CHARNY CALLS FOR ESTABLISHING ORGANIZATION OF PEOPLES THAT SURVIVED GENOCIDE
YEREVAN, April 22. / ARKA /. Speaking at the international social
and political Global Forum against the Crime of Genocide in Yerevan
today the executive director of the Institute on the Holocaust and
Genocide in Jerusalem, Israel Charny, called for establishment of an
organization of peoples that survived genocides to be led by Armenia.
He said this organization will become a powerful blow to the policy of
genocide denial. Its main function should be prevention of genocides,
he said adding also it is time for experts in genocide studies to
get engaged in the prevention of crimes against humanity.
Speaking about the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, professor
Charny stressed that it actually began in 1895, when Sultan Abdul Hamid
issued an order for Muslims to start killing of Christian Armenians.
He said this fact alone shows that Turkey's counter-arguments are
baseless. Charney said then calls for jihad against Armenians are
actually the same calls made by the Islamic State.
The gathering in Yerevan is part of a long string of events
commemorating the centennial of the Armenian genocide. The two-day
gathering has brought to Armenia 600 delegates from different
countries.
Addressing the forum Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan said one of
the topics to be discussed during the forum refers to the role of
the memory and truth in overcoming the consequences of genocide.
'That is, truly, the most accurate way to pin it down since, as far as
the crimes of genocide are concerned, the remembrance and contemporary
reality are unavoidably interlaced. Genocide is a crime of such a vast
scale, with such a severe damage inflicted that even many decades
later its impact is felt by the descendants of both the victims and
perpetrators, as well as by the entire international community.
For us, Armenians, remembrance is a moral obligation and, at the same
time, inalienable individual and collective right. It is our moral
duty and right to commemorate the one and a half milion of victims,
inhumane sufferings endured by the hundreds of thousands, loss of the
material and spiritual heritage accumulated by our people throughout
millenia, extermination of the substantial part of the early 20th
century Armenian intelligentsia, who mainly resided in Constantinople,
that led to the mass slaughter. It is because of this cohesion of the
right and duty that we have adopted the motto "I remember and demand"
for the commemoration events.
It is impossible to disagree with the Holocaust survivor and Nobel
Prize winner Elie Wiesel, who notes that "to forget the dead would be
akin to killing them a second time." Remembrance, meanwhile, is the
best remedy for the descendants of those who perpetrated genocide
to face their own history, and the best opportunity to restore the
justice." -0-
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YEREVAN, April 22. / ARKA /. Speaking at the international social
and political Global Forum against the Crime of Genocide in Yerevan
today the executive director of the Institute on the Holocaust and
Genocide in Jerusalem, Israel Charny, called for establishment of an
organization of peoples that survived genocides to be led by Armenia.
He said this organization will become a powerful blow to the policy of
genocide denial. Its main function should be prevention of genocides,
he said adding also it is time for experts in genocide studies to
get engaged in the prevention of crimes against humanity.
Speaking about the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, professor
Charny stressed that it actually began in 1895, when Sultan Abdul Hamid
issued an order for Muslims to start killing of Christian Armenians.
He said this fact alone shows that Turkey's counter-arguments are
baseless. Charney said then calls for jihad against Armenians are
actually the same calls made by the Islamic State.
The gathering in Yerevan is part of a long string of events
commemorating the centennial of the Armenian genocide. The two-day
gathering has brought to Armenia 600 delegates from different
countries.
Addressing the forum Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan said one of
the topics to be discussed during the forum refers to the role of
the memory and truth in overcoming the consequences of genocide.
'That is, truly, the most accurate way to pin it down since, as far as
the crimes of genocide are concerned, the remembrance and contemporary
reality are unavoidably interlaced. Genocide is a crime of such a vast
scale, with such a severe damage inflicted that even many decades
later its impact is felt by the descendants of both the victims and
perpetrators, as well as by the entire international community.
For us, Armenians, remembrance is a moral obligation and, at the same
time, inalienable individual and collective right. It is our moral
duty and right to commemorate the one and a half milion of victims,
inhumane sufferings endured by the hundreds of thousands, loss of the
material and spiritual heritage accumulated by our people throughout
millenia, extermination of the substantial part of the early 20th
century Armenian intelligentsia, who mainly resided in Constantinople,
that led to the mass slaughter. It is because of this cohesion of the
right and duty that we have adopted the motto "I remember and demand"
for the commemoration events.
It is impossible to disagree with the Holocaust survivor and Nobel
Prize winner Elie Wiesel, who notes that "to forget the dead would be
akin to killing them a second time." Remembrance, meanwhile, is the
best remedy for the descendants of those who perpetrated genocide
to face their own history, and the best opportunity to restore the
justice." -0-
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