EUROPEAN THOUGHT AND ARMENIAN CAUSE
Nikos Lygeros

KarabakhOpen
19-09-2007 10:13:35

The Turkish diplomacy must finally understand that any European
thinker, any defender of the human rights is foremost Armenian. We
do not find references to Armenia in the manuscripts of Leonardo da
Vinci merely by chance. This country always attracted Europe. Only
from now on its people are even more important because the genocide
of the Armenians of 1915 represents a paradigm in the field of the
human rights. Its victims of an all-out war without name are evidences
shouting in our memory because the men themselves keep silent. For
now, we do not have any more excuses because we are not ourselves
in direct danger. So we must show that the Armenian cause is one of
the fundamental components of the European thought. We were certainly
able to conceive the Declaration of the Human Rights. But other people
had to endure the consequences of its transgression. These innocents
gave a lesson to the righteous. They gave their life so that men
sacrifice theirs to this cause. We cannot be satisfied to say that
we are the children of the Declaration of the Human Rights, we are
also the parents of the children victims of the genocide. Because the
genocide of the Armenians, the first of the XXth century, modified
our way of seeing the human rights. It enabled us to understand what
the reality of a crime against humanity constitutes. The Turkish
diplomacy tries by any means to exclude the Armenian claims, as it
disputes the existence of Cyprus, in order to appear in a neutral
way. But the European thought did not forget the past because it is
imprescriptible and also because it is our past. We do not want to
accept the genocide of the memory, this other genocide of the Turkish
system. If we are Europeans it is also because we are Armenians
too, because our own history was wounded by the genocide of these
people. The Turkish diplomacy may well play the card of the new image,
we keep in memory those of the "Petit Illustre" of our ancestors that
illustrated the "massacre a la Turque". As the grown up children still
remember images of their school, our memory cannot forget the victims
of the genocide, because it is the continuation of their deaths. The
memory can transcend death but only the recognition of the genocide
transcends barbarousness. If Turkey does not recognize the genocide,
it will recognize that we are Armenians!