Avet Adonts: recognition of Genocide to restore historical justice

Avet Adonts: recognition of Genocide to restore historical justice
April 25, 2010 - 09:28 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - A number events dated to the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide were held in Belgium.

A service offered in St. Magdalena Church was followed by a march towards the khachkar commemorating the Armenian Genocide victims.

RA Ambassador to Belgium Avet Adonts and chairman of the Armenian Committee of Belgium Michel Mamuryan delivered speeches.

“I am hopeful that the people who survived the Genocide will witness its international recognition one day,” Ambassador Adonts said.

The Armenian Genocide

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.

Present-day Turkey denies the fact of the Armenian Genocide, justifying the atrocities as “deportation to secure Armenians”. Only a few Turkish intellectuals, including Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk and scholar Taner Akcam, speak openly about the necessity to recognize this crime against humanity.

The Armenian Genocide was recognized by Uruguay, Russia, France, Lithuania, Italy, 45 U.S. states, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Argentina, Belgium, Austria, Wales, Switzerland, Canada, Poland, Venezuela, Chile, Bolivia, the Vatican, Luxembourg, Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands, Paraguay, Sweden, Venezuela, Slovakia, Syria, Vatican, as well as the European Parliament and the World Council of Churches.

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