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New Web Site Assesses Armenian Genocide Losses
March 14, 2015
Yerevan - Armenian Genocide Losses
1915,http://armeniangenocidelosses.am/, is a new web site created by
an independent research group in Armenia. "The goal is to provide a
framework for informed discussion on the extent of the harm resulting
from this genocide."
It presents a formula based on international norms and precedents,
which call for reversible harm to be reversed and irreversible harm to
be compensated. Reversible harm includes land, property and rights
that can be restored. Irreversible harm includes lost lives, destroyed
property, and other intangible harm caused and benefit gained by delay
and denial of the Armenian Genocide. The total harm caused and benefit
gained from the Armenian Genocide is estimated to be in excess of $3
trillion.
The site takes as a starting point the 1919 Armenian Claim at the
Paris Peace conference, which had both monetary and land/property
restoration components. It also adds delay damages for the 100 years
of denial and delay in resolving the Armenian Genocide.
As show in bar charts, the mix of reversible and irreversible harm is
subject to adjustment, depending on political will. The more land,
property and rights that are restored, the less monetary compensation
that is due for irreversible harm, and vice versa. The site considers
four scenarios for land restoration ranging from current-day Armenia
and Artsakh to the 1919 Armenian Homeland claim from the Black to
Mediterranean Seas made at the Paris Peace Conference.
Somewhat unique in its approach, the site recognizes that in addition
to direct perpetrators there were other complicit parties and
beneficiaries before, during and after the Armenian Genocide. A pie
chart allocates the harm caused and benefits gained to various
countries and peoples. These include the Turkey, its WWI Allies
Germany, and Austro-Hungary, the Kurds, and the Great Powers, whose
policies and actions factored into the Armenian Genocide and the
obstruction of its timely resolution, such as, England, Russia,
France, Italy, the US and later Israel.
Delay damages were calculated using present value and the timevalue of
money and property. Delay damages also includes deprivation of access
to the Armenian ancestral homeland for 100years, interference with
maintenance of cultural heritage, and the emotional distress
associated with denial of the crime, delay in justice, and witnessing
the depredation of one's nation and homeland.
Irreversible harm includes post-1919 destruction of life, real and
immovable property, injuries and refugee maintenance costs, destroyed
and desecrated cultural heritage, lost revenues from natural resources
and transit rights, stolen property, costs of continued
discrimination, oppression and persecution of Armenians in Turkey, as
well as projected revenues from national patrimony, including natural
resources (minerals, hydrocarbons) and continued costs to Armenia of
blockade and lack of access to the sea.
The site makes the case that assessment of the harm is essential to
recognition and rectification of the crime. Although justifying the
need for compensation, the site comes to the sobering conclusion that
"although compensation cannot make the victims whole, it can help the
perpetrators and beneficiaries find the redemption they need: if not
for themselves, for humanity's sake; if not for this generation, for
future generations."
Download the PDF version here
http://armeniangenocidelosses.am/pdf/Armenian_Genocide_Losse
http://www.horizonweekly.ca/news/details/63778
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
March 14, 2015
Yerevan - Armenian Genocide Losses
1915,http://armeniangenocidelosses.am/, is a new web site created by
an independent research group in Armenia. "The goal is to provide a
framework for informed discussion on the extent of the harm resulting
from this genocide."
It presents a formula based on international norms and precedents,
which call for reversible harm to be reversed and irreversible harm to
be compensated. Reversible harm includes land, property and rights
that can be restored. Irreversible harm includes lost lives, destroyed
property, and other intangible harm caused and benefit gained by delay
and denial of the Armenian Genocide. The total harm caused and benefit
gained from the Armenian Genocide is estimated to be in excess of $3
trillion.
The site takes as a starting point the 1919 Armenian Claim at the
Paris Peace conference, which had both monetary and land/property
restoration components. It also adds delay damages for the 100 years
of denial and delay in resolving the Armenian Genocide.
As show in bar charts, the mix of reversible and irreversible harm is
subject to adjustment, depending on political will. The more land,
property and rights that are restored, the less monetary compensation
that is due for irreversible harm, and vice versa. The site considers
four scenarios for land restoration ranging from current-day Armenia
and Artsakh to the 1919 Armenian Homeland claim from the Black to
Mediterranean Seas made at the Paris Peace Conference.
Somewhat unique in its approach, the site recognizes that in addition
to direct perpetrators there were other complicit parties and
beneficiaries before, during and after the Armenian Genocide. A pie
chart allocates the harm caused and benefits gained to various
countries and peoples. These include the Turkey, its WWI Allies
Germany, and Austro-Hungary, the Kurds, and the Great Powers, whose
policies and actions factored into the Armenian Genocide and the
obstruction of its timely resolution, such as, England, Russia,
France, Italy, the US and later Israel.
Delay damages were calculated using present value and the timevalue of
money and property. Delay damages also includes deprivation of access
to the Armenian ancestral homeland for 100years, interference with
maintenance of cultural heritage, and the emotional distress
associated with denial of the crime, delay in justice, and witnessing
the depredation of one's nation and homeland.
Irreversible harm includes post-1919 destruction of life, real and
immovable property, injuries and refugee maintenance costs, destroyed
and desecrated cultural heritage, lost revenues from natural resources
and transit rights, stolen property, costs of continued
discrimination, oppression and persecution of Armenians in Turkey, as
well as projected revenues from national patrimony, including natural
resources (minerals, hydrocarbons) and continued costs to Armenia of
blockade and lack of access to the sea.
The site makes the case that assessment of the harm is essential to
recognition and rectification of the crime. Although justifying the
need for compensation, the site comes to the sobering conclusion that
"although compensation cannot make the victims whole, it can help the
perpetrators and beneficiaries find the redemption they need: if not
for themselves, for humanity's sake; if not for this generation, for
future generations."
Download the PDF version here
http://armeniangenocidelosses.am/pdf/Armenian_Genocide_Losse
http://www.horizonweekly.ca/news/details/63778
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress