HERMAN GOLDS: RECOGNITION OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS A STRUGGLE BETWEEN TRUTH AND FORGERY

ArmRadio.am
22.05.2006 14:41

“The issue of recognition of the Armenian Genocide is not a battle
between Armenia and Turkey, but a struggle between truth and forgery,”
Professor of the German Research Center after Lepsius Herman Golds
told in his interview to ” Armenpress” correspondent. In his words,
the interest of Armenians in this issue is an all-human interest,
the demand of Armenians obtains a universal support.

Golds was in Armenia to participate in the third sitting of the
international commission of genocide experts held 17-19 May in Yerevan,
during which the experts were studying the documents through which
an application on recognition of the Armenian Genocide and calling
Turkey to responsibility will be submitted to the International Court
of Human Rights.

According to the German scientist, this way the aim of the resolution
of the issue is justified, but the commission of experts should be
expanded into and international one and should comprise lawyers from
different countries of the world including Turkey. “There are people
in this country who back the truth,” he noted.

According to Herman Golds’s assessment, there are good chances to
win the case. He considers that the issue should be brought to the
Court not by the Armenian side, but by the commission of scientists.

“This is not an Armenian issue only, but an international one. It is
not only the Armenian government that should be interested in this
issue, but the whole international community,” he said.