AJB MEMBER OFFERS IMPOSING SANCTIONS FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL, SIMILARLY TO NEGATION OF HOLOCAUST

PanARMENIAN.Net
07.10.2009 21:05 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ At "Denial and Democracy in Europe" conference in
the European Parliament, Brussels, Association of Jews in Belgium
(AJB) representative, Nicolas Zomersztajn offered imposing sanctions
for denial of Armenians’ and Rwanda Tutsis’ Genocide, similarly to
negation of Holocaust, adding that arguments over which Genocide was
more horrible are pointless.

"Denial is the ultimate act of Genocide. Even if it’s not perpetrators
who negate the Genocide, the negation itself aims at trying to prove
the victims to be liars or criminals," Sorbonne University professor,
specializing in Genocide history, Yves Ternon stated.

Conference participants also noted that not only perpetrators are
to blame for Genocides, but also the world community who remained
silent on the issue. Auschwitz concentration camp survivor, Ralph
Giordano emphasized that the international community kept long years’
silence over Armenian Genocide. "My country – Germany recognized the
fact in 2005, as well as the role of German Emperor German II, who
was perfectly aware of massacres," Rzeczpospolita polish newspaper
cited him as saying.