FORMER AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA HARRY GILMORE RECOGNIZES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

YEREVAN, MARCH 11. ARMINFO. Harry Gilmore, the first American
Ambassador to Armenia, is the latest U.S. official to publicly
acknowledge the Armenian Genocide and call for international
recognition of this crime against humanity. In an interview with Radio
Free Europe/ Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) this week, the retired diplomat
said, “There is no doubt that the Armenian events were genocide.” AAA
reports that Gilmore told RFE/RL that the crimes against the Armenians
fit the definition of genocide as determined by the U.N. Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.

One should not forget that the Convention was adopted long after
these events, Gilmore says, but from the legal point of view the
international Convention has no return force. “The key point is that
the convention sets up a standard and the massacres and deportations
of the Ottoman Armenians meet that standard fully,” Gilmore stated.

I can hear the voices of the souls of those who fell victims in Ter
Dzor desert, the diplomat says. Someone must recognize what had
happened to them and to call the things with their proper names,
he says.