ARMENPRESS
01.04.2005

AZNAVOUR DEMANDS THAT GERMANY RECOGNIZES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

BERLIN, MARCH 31, ARMENPRESS: World renowned French singer and composer
of Armenian origin Charles Aznavour demands that Germany must recognize the
Armenian genocide as “a crime against humanity, as France and Switzerland
did.”
In an article published by German newspaper Die Zeit Wednesday, the son
of Armenian refugees from Turkey who fled it at the beginning of the 20-th
century, Aznavour explains that Germany also bears responsibility for that
crime, “not because German government officials ordered the extermination of
Armenians but because they watched it happen as spectators.”
“If Germany recognizes the Armenian genocide that would be a great step
to urge other countries to do the same,” he says.