Petition calling not to impede Armenian Genocide recognition introduced in Swedish parliament

June 10, 2008 - 16:16 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - On an initiative of Vahagn Avedian, Chairman of the Board of Union of Armenian Associations in Sweden, a petition issued in 10 languages, was submitted to the members of the Swedish Parliament in order to influence on a decision of the Foreign Affairs Commission to disallow the proposals for recognition of the Armenian Genocide, independent French journalist Jean Eckian told PanARMENIAN.Net



The text signed by 60 leading experts in Holocaust and Genocide studies reads in part, "Today, Sweden is internationally regarded as a champion of human rights. The incumbent Swedish authorities should live up to this reputation and reject any compromise with negationism and denial. The Swedish government should attempt to assist Turkey to become a better democracy by facing its history and acknowledging the truth, not by continuing to stagger in the darkness of self-deception and pretense. Today, the data and information about the Genocide of Armenians, Assyrians and Pontian Greeks are so extensive that no serious politician can honestly cite insufficient or inconclusive research as an excuse to avoid recognition. Refusal to recognize an established fact based on qualitative and quantitative research may be regarded as being tantamount to denial. The signatories have no doubt that the massacres of Christians and other minorities in the Ottoman Empire during the World War I constituted genocide."



The Swedish Parliament meets tomorrow, June 11, to rule on this issue.



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