Posted on 01/29/2015 11:40:09 AM PST by george76
The human rights lawyer represents Armenia in the ECHR - but what happened in 1915 when up to 1.5m Armenians were killed, and why do Turks deny it was a genocide?
Amal Clooney, the human rights lawyer, has taken on another controversial case - the Armenian genocide.
Mrs Clooney is part of a team representing Armenia in a case she opens on Wednesday in which a Turkish politician was convicted by Switzerland for denying the genocide in 1915 ever took place.
Doğu Perinçek, chairman of the Turkish Workers' Party, described the genocide of up to 1.5 million Armenians - a fact Turkey disputes as well as the number of those killed - as an "international lie" in Switzerland in 2005.
A lobby group called Switzerland-Armenia immediately filed a criminal complaint against him in July as it is against Swiss law to deny the genocide as part of the country's anti-racism laws.
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For many Armenians, the genocide, like the Holocaust of six million Jews, is still a painful issue exacerbated by Turkey's continued denials. In the Perinçek case, Armenia hopes to set out that the genocide is a fact which cannot be denied without legal repercussions.
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It is generally accepted by many, including historians and Mr Sarafian, that the start of the massacres was April 24, 1915. This was the date on which several hundred Armenian individuals were arrested and killed and led to further massacres across Turkey.
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It is believed this lasted until 1917 and led to 1.5 million Armenians killed - a figure Turkey disputes, putting the figure at 300,000 to 600,000.
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They are going to be divorced by the end of the year
This is interesting.
It’s quite simple, really.
If it’s white people and/or Christians being killed, then it’s not genocide.
This is a bad hill on which to make a stand. Yes, Turkey murdered somewhere around 1.5 million Armenians. The Church roles and baptismal records support the claim despite Turkey's denials. There is also evidence that this was an official policy the intent of which was to kill Armenians. So there was an Armenian Genocide.
The problem is with laws, like this, which intend prior restraint of free speech. It's a pity that a country like Switzerland -- in many ways much freer than the United States -- has this kind of a law.
The Turks have been a problem for the Armenians, the Greeks, the Austrians, the Kurds. Historical bullies and thugs.
Turkey would be a great starting point for rolling the Muslims out of Europe... flatten most of Istanbul, convert or push the Muslims out and rename it Constantinople. (Kosovo and Albania would make a nice side-quest, but maybe leave that up to the Russians and Serbs)
Demos Shakarian of the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Association was born on his father’s dairy farm near Downy, California of parents who had escaped from Armenia as children, right before the massacre..
A young boy was told by God that the Turks were going to slaughter all the Armenian Christians and those who believed the prophesy got away in time to America..
Demos wrote a little book called The Happy People in the World in which he told of the massacre in depth..
There was no doubt that all those people were murdered..
Demos mentioned the relatives of people who fled..the ones who stayed behind didn’t survive..
A fair number of European countries have “thought crimes”.
These laws have established the principle the gov’t can limit free speech due to political content. Only a matter of time before the principle is expanded to ban so called blasphemy against Islam. Would rather live in a society like the US where one can be a Holocaust or Armenian Genocide denier than in these European countries.
Grocery store checkout Enquirer cover has, “$200M divorce” going on after only 4 months...any truth to this???
Clooney should have gotten the "Massey Pre-nup".
A hatchet-face only a mother could love - or a deluded liberal like Clooney. Seriously, what’s attractive about that hag - in body or mind?
She DOES kind’a have a horse face.
Imho, this is a sham marriage.
Yep, just another Hollyweird beard “marriage”.
Exactly.
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