RESOLUTION WITH JUSTICE – Reparations for the Armenian Genocide
YEREVAN—The International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) World Council unanimously passed a resolution on the Armenian Genocide Centennial, demanding reparations for the crime, condemning its denial and vowing to educate IUSY member organizations about the crime worldwide. The World Council, which took place in Yerevan and was hosted by the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) of Armenia, adopted the resolution on May 9.
YEREVAN (Armenpress) — A prominent Armenian political analyst, Ara Papian, has called for the creation of a governmental body for the development of a legal portfolio of Armenian reparation demands from Turkey. The body, Papian says, should be given the authority to invite experienced specialists of international law from around the world.
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Author Kadri Gursel
TranslatorTimur Göksel
Al-Monitor
Every year on April 24, the day commonly accepted as the beginning of the Armenian genocide, Ankara vehemently refuses to recognize the 1915 massacre and deportation of Ottoman Armenians living in Anatolia as genocide, and focuses on Washington and whether the US president will use the word “genocide” in his April 24 message. As this year was the centennial of the Armenian genocide, Ankara and the Armenian diaspora as well as Yerevan paid special attention to the matter. The general expectation was that even though it is the centennial, President Barack Obama would not want to damage bilateral ties with Turkey. This is in fact what happened, and Obama did not say the word.
Ned Whalley
The Daily Star
BEIRUT: Tashnag leader MP Hagop Pakradounian characterized the centenary of the Armenian genocide as both a memorial service and a call for justice, saying Armenians would never surrender to the ongoing assault on their presence in the region.
“The mere fact that the Armenians are [still] present, that we are still talking about the Armenian question, that we are exerting pressure, that we are remembering and demanding, it means that the Turks couldn’t succeed in their plans.”
Pakradounian said remembrance is particularly important to the Armenians in Lebanon, “because the diaspora is constituted of those who were subject to the genocide. My grandfather was killed in 1915. It’s very logical that I will have this grievance more, and this ‘fight against Turkey’ more, so I can take back my rights.”
W dniu 24 kwietnia 2015 roku Narodowy Komitet Ormiański Polski opublikował polską wersję broszury “Sprawiedliwe Rozwiązanie”, która jest skróconą wersją raportu końcowego Grupy Badawczej ds. Odszkodowań za Ludobójstwo Ormian zatytułowanego “Sprawiedliwe Rozwiązanie. Odszkodowania za ludobójstwa Ormian”. Raport oferuje bezprecedensową kompleksową analizę prawnych, historycznych, politycznych i etycznych wymiarów kwestii reparacji za ludobójstwo Ormian. Pełna wersja raportu dostępna jest na stronie internetowej: http://wwww.armeniangenocidereparations.info/
Wersja angielska/English version:
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By RICK GLADSTONE
The New York Times
Behind the Turkish government’s denials of the century-old Armenian genocide lurks the possibility that survivors and their descendants could be deemed legally entitled someday to financial reparations, perhaps worth tens of billions of dollars or more.
The Turkish authorities take the position that there is nothing that needs to be repaid. Moreover, no judicial mechanism exists in which claims of such magnitude, from events 100 years ago, could be litigated. But Armenian activists have nonetheless increasingly focused on the issue of compensation in recent years.
Henry Theriault is a professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Worcester State University in the United States. Over 1999-2007, he coordinated the University’s Center for the Study of Human Rights. His research focuses on reparations, victim-perpetrator relations, genocide denial, genocide prevention, and mass violence against women and girls.
Since 2007, he has chaired the Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group and is the lead author of its March 2015 final report, Resolution with Justice. This week Henry Theriault is visiting Armenia to take part in the Against the Crime of Genocide Global Forum due to be held in Yerevan on April 22-23.
In his exclusive interview to Mediamax, he talked about the recent report on the Armenian Genocide reparations.
Nvard Chalikyan from Panorama.am has spoken with Professor Henry C. Theriault – Chair of the Philosophy Department at Worcester State University and Chair of the Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group (AGRSG) about the recently published report of the Group titled Resolution with Justice: Reparations for the Armenian Genocide (Armenian and English versions of the full report are available here).
Երևան, 2015թ. ապրիլի 13 – Այսօր հրապարակվել է Հայոց ցեղասպանության հատուցումների ուսումնասիրման խմբի (ՀՑՀՈւԽ) վերջնական եւ ամբողջական զեկույցի հայերեն տարբերակը՝ «Արդարացի լուծում – Հայոց ցեղասպանության հատուցումները»։ Զեկույցում ներկայացված է 1915-1923թթ. Հայոց ցեղասպանության հատուցումների հարցի իրավական, պատմական, քաղաքական և բարոյական կողմերին առնչվող աննախադեպ համապարփակ վերլուծությունը: Զեկույցում ներառված են նաև հատուցումների լիակատար փաթեթի բաղադրիչների վերաբերյալ կոնկրետ առաջարկություններ:
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YEREVAN (A.W./Asbarez) – The Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group on Monday issued its final report, entitled “Resolution with Justice—Reparations for the Armenian Genocide,” offering an unprecedented comprehensive analysis of the legal, historical, political, and ethical dimensions of the question of reparations for the Armenian Genocide.
In September 2014, the group completed the report, and released the introduction. With the announcement on Monday, the AGRSG is making the entire report available for download, free of charge.