JOINT PRESS RELEASE
Union of Armenian Associations in
Box 237, 17724 Järfälla, Sweden
Contact: Vahagn Avedian
+46 707 73 33 83
info@armeniska.se
Union of Assyrian Associations in
Box 6019, 151 06 Södertälje, Sweden
Contact: Rachel Hadodo
+46 707 16 98 26
info@hujada.se
Armenica
Box 1716, 751 47 Uppsala, Sweden
Contact: Vahagn Avedian
+46 707 73 33 83
info@armenica.org
Petition Site:
Recognize the 1915 Genocide for what it is
Why does genocide continue to occur in the 21st century? Because
those committed in the 20th century got away with it. Hitler said -Who
remembers the Armenians?- More or less as if the Sudanese Government is
standing up and saying -Who remembers the Armenians? – Salih Booker,
former Executive Director of Africa Action, on the ongoing genocide in
Darfur . Excerpt from the documentary Screamers, 2007
The Swedish Foreign Affairs Committee, on May 29, 2008, published
its decision to suggest that the Parliament should reject the motions
calling upon the Swedish Parliament and Government to recognize the 1915
genocide. The decision is mainly based upon the following arguments:
* -…no particular consideration regarding the Armenian
situation has ever been in form of an UN Resolution, either in 1985 or
any other occasion.-
* -The Committee understands that what engulfed the Armenians,
Assyrian/Syrians and Chaldeans during the reign of the Ottoman Empire
would, according to the 1948 Convention, probably be regarded as
genocide, if it had been in power at the time.-
* -There is still a disagreement among the experts regarding
the different course of events of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
. The same applies to the underlying causes and how the assaults shall
be classified.-
The petition, signed by leading experts on Holocaust and
Genocide Studies, is a call upon, not only Swedish leaders, but an
appeal to all leaders around the world to stop abusing the name of
science in their political agenda, abetting the denial of genocide.
The text and complete list of signatories is available in several
different languages at