“I’M SURPRISED WE STILL ARE SITTING HERE DISCUSSING WHETHER THE GENOCIDE TOOK PLACE OR NOT”. THE PROSECUTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

April 23 2015

“This was a Genocide, which was committed against Armenians, Assyrians
and Greeks by the Turks. These mentioned genocides have played a
significant role in the formation of our organization”, – said the
International Association of Genocide`s president Daniel Feuerstein
at global forum “Against the Crime of Genocide”, who has been in our
country for the first time and considers a great honor to be here to
participate in the events dedicated to 100th anniversary of Armenian
Genocide .He said. – “The international community is willing to fight
against genocide denial”. Daniel Feuerstein drew attention to the
fact that the genocide ultimate goal is not the individuals but the
destruction of the group. -“The perpetrators considered Armenians
as not an element of earth’s history forming part and were trying to
achieve homogeneity of the modern state by pan-Turkism “. Feuerstein
underlined that today more attention is paid to the idea of global
genocide than to an understanding of others’ suffering. On the opening
of the forum Luis Moreno-Ocampo, who was the first prosecutor of the
International Criminal Court (2003-2012), noted that the existence of
such a court has already shown that we are moving forward. -“There
was no such court in 1915 and in 1945 began the new international
court, based on the Nuremberg events”. He stressed that the most
important challenge today is the creation of a clear position that
the past life will come into concrete action. -“Armenia is having the
need to take the advantage. When the world is unified it is easy to
prevent Genocide, although the one who has committed Genocide knows
how to influence other countries (business, economy, etc.)”. Luis
Moreno-Ocampo said this adding that they should constantly work with
Armenia in order to understand how to achieve the recognition of
the Armenian Genocide. – “I’m surprised we still are sitting here
discussing whether the Genocide took place or not”.

Siranoush HAYRAPETYAN

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