Armenian Genocide should be denounced worldwide as crime against humanity
24.04.2013,
15:40
Armenian Genocide is a crime against humanity and its should be condemned all over the globe, Hrayr Tovmasyan, acting Armenian justice minister, said on April 24, the day of commemoration of the Armenians killed by Ottoman Turks in 1915.
YEREVAN, April 24. /ARKA/. Armenian Genocide is a crime against humanity and its should be condemned all over the globe, Hrayr Tovmasyan, acting Armenian justice minister, said on April 24, the day of commemoration of the Armenians killed by Ottoman Turks in 1915.
He said that the struggle for admission and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide is a struggle for justice.
Tovmasyan says that correct legal grounds should be carefully explored, since the concept of genocide was worded in legal documents only after 1945, and we should find a correct solution.
The Armenian Genocide was the first genocide of the twentieth century. Turkey has been denying it for decades. The Armenian genocide was recognized by tens of countries. The first was Uruguay that did so in 1965. Other nations are Russia, France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina, 42 U.S. states. The Armenian Genocide was recognized by the Vatican, the European Parliament, the World Council of Churches and other international organizations. -0-
