UK HOUSE OF LORDS DEBATING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MOTION

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
30.03.2010 12:06 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The British House of Lords opened debates on the
Armenian Genocide motion on March 29. The discussion was initiated
by independent member of parliament, Baroness Carline Cox, who asked
Her Majesty’s Government to recognize that the 1915-1917 events
constituted Genocide.

Baroness Cox reminded that the Turkish government denies the fact of
Genocide and spares no effort to prevent the international community
from recognizing it. "Suppression of the truth proved that there was
Genocide. The 1915 events will never be forgotten. An entire nation was
annihilated. Refusal to recognize historical reality of any genocide
can serve as an encouragement to other potential perpetrators, who will
believe that they can get away with similar genocides with impunity,"
she said.

The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic
destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during
and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and
deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to
lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths
reaching 1.5 million.

The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the
Genocide survivors.