I Am Confused!

[Z'areh]

Exactly but not exactly. Crimes against humanity are not bound by statutes of limitation. That said, the measures to indemnify the heirs of the victims could not have retroactive effect simply because retroactivity is not an issue.

I have the feeling that both Mr. Phillips and prof. Weissel apply the same approach as to the one of the Jewish Holocaust, (my respects for that) but I think here we are dealing with different type of crime. The Armenian genocide was a crime perpetrated against native population, whereas the Jewish holocaust was a classic example of minority persecution and extermination.

 

All in all, the whole recognition process (including the legal ramifications that are inevitable) would be extremely complicated legal task.

 

 

It is quite obvious that everybody is aware of the remifications of condemning Turkey for the crime of genocide, they are all looking at the facts (Genocide) and wondering how the hell can they get out of it.

 

So their best bet is to try hard to convinvce us (and themselves) that what happened was indeed wholesale and indescriminate massacres, exterminations of entire populations, property theft, land grab, forced Islamization, destruction of a civilization using the entire State apparatus, all that really approaches being qualified to more or less resembling and perhaps looking like genocidal activities. BUT it is out of question to call it genocide, such as the clear cases of Rwanda and the Holocaust, Therefore Turkey, which really wasn't there when all these things happened, cannot be bound by the UN genocide convention.

 

Europe has already decided that this is the best approach to dealing with Turkey.

 

Disgusted? We are fighting the fight of our millenium. It's up to us to win it.