ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IDENTIFIED AS TEMPLATE FOR HOLOCAUST AND OTHER ‘MODERN’ GENOCIDES

PanARMENIAN.Net
23.04.2008 16:40 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ New York Times bestselling author, Professor Peter
Balakian joined political figures, and representatives and members
of Sydney’s Armenian community in commemorating the 93rd Anniversary
of the Armenian Genocide, reported the Armenian National Committee
of Australia.

Balakian, Rebar Professor of the Humanities at Colgate University
and Raphael Lemkin Prize-winning author of The Burning Tigris:
The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response (2003), exposed the
1,000 attendees to research identifying the Armenian Genocide as the
‘template’ used by Adolf Hitler for the Jewish Holocaust, as well as
other ‘modern’ genocides.

"To understand the Jewish Holocaust, to understand the Cambodian
Genocide, to understand Darfur; we must first of all understand their
template of genocide in the modern period, the Armenian Genocide,"
said Prof. Balakian.

Balakian’s address highlighted the need for worldwide recognition
and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide.

"Professor Balakian has brought great exposure to the Armenian cause
worldwide and he is now continuing this in Australia," said Mr. Varant
Meguerditchian of the organizing Armenian Genocide Commemorative
Committee.

"The research he presented tonight shows why recognizing and condemning
acts of Genocide remains an important human rights priority."