GEOFFREY ROBERTSON DISCUSSES THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ON THE CHARLIE ROSE SHOW (VIDEO)
10:54, 18 Mar 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
International jurist, human rights lawyer, and academic Geoffrey
Robertson QC discusses the facts of the Armenian Genocide, condemns
President Obama’s reticence to properly acknowledge that crime and
urges Turkey to end its international campaign of denial in this
powerful interview with Ethan Bronner on the Charlie Rose Show (first
aired on March 16, 2015), reports the Armenian National Committee of
America (ANCA).
His latest book is An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Remembers the
Armenians? In recent years, he has been particularly prominent in
the defense of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. He has also represented
author Salman Rushdie, and prosecuted General Augusto Pinochet. In
2008, he was appointed by United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon as a “distinguished jurist” member of the UN’s Justice Council,
which nominates and supervises UN judges. His memoir, The Justice Game,
has sold over 150,000 copies.
>From March 13th to 15th, Mr. Robertson was in New York City
headlining the “Responsibility 2015: Armenian Genocide Centennial
Conference, a three day spotlight on the state of Armenian Genocide
scholarship, genocide education, building solidarity, individual
and group reparations, genocide denial, transitional justice, gender
and mass violence, Islamized Armenians, and the Armenian Genocide in
policy circles.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
