Does UN act in Turkey's favor?

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Does UN act in Turkey's favor?

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PanARMENIAN.Net

Does UN act in Turkey's favor?
 
Does it really make any difference how many people
were killed - one and a half million, six, or even if
only one person? Genocide is genocide, arithmetic is 
not needed here.
31.01.2007 GMT+04:00
   
On January 25 the UN General Assembly adopted a
Resolution condemning the denial of the Holocaust as
of a historical fact. The Document was supported by
103 countries out of the 192 Member States, no voting 
was held. The Resolution was submitted for
consideration on Tuesday by the US representative, it
contains a call to all the UN Member States for the
absolute denial of any doubts of the indisputability
of the Holocaust. 

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ No definite country was mentioned in
the document, however it was mentioned that `ignoring
the denial of the historical fact of the terrible
Holocaust runs the risk of its repetition'. The date 
was chosen in honor of the liberation day of the
prisoners of the largest concentration camp Oswiecim,
January 27, 1945. Laws banning the Holocaust denial
are applied in 9 EU Member States - Austria, Belgium, 
Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania, the Slovak
Republic, France, and the Czech Republic. 

The adopted Resolution causes embarrassment. On the
one hand everything is quite obvious - genocide, in
its any kind of manifestation must be recognized and 
condemned. On the other hand it is a double standard
policy, which by the way shows its worth in its most
obnoxious form. The slaughter and deportation of 2
million Armenians in the Ottoman Turkey, which was
 placed on a national basis, is considered only `tragic
events of 1915'. Bewilderment is caused by another
article of the Resolution, which says that `ignoring
the historical fact of the terrible Holocaust runs the 
larger risk of its repetition'. This is what Armenia
has just been talking about for so long, mentioning
that if in due time the League of Nations had
recognized `the events of 1915' as a Genocide, it 
could have helped to avoid the Holocaust, or at least
the later wouldn't be on such a large scale. However
it did not, and thus impunity of the murders on racial
grounds followed one another. Nevertheless Hitler's 
famous phrase, which is denied by the Turkish
historians, was uttered. One very essential detail
should be mentioned here; according to some sources,
the slaughter of the Armenians, was `provoked' by
Germany, which was Turkey's ally in the First World 
War. The German advisors of course didn't call the
Turks to exterminate the Armenians, but they didn't
display great efforts to stop them from doing it
either. In 1915 the German Ambassador to Istanbul, 
Wangenheim was asked to stop the deportation, for he
was able to do that. But he didn't, grounding on the
absence of the instructions from Berlin. By the way,
according to some sources in 1915 Wangenheim died from 
cardiac rupture. It is said, he couldn't endure the
stories about the horror in Western Armenia. But all
this is already in the past, and we are more concerned
with the present, which is full of anti-Armenian 
propaganda disseminated by the Turkish Government.
`Historical indisputability of the Holocaust is
nothing but reality, and it must be condemned, but the
denial of the Armenian Genocide, which is still
continuing on a rather large scale, is of more vital 
importance than any case of the Holocaust denial. Here
the real point is that the Armenian Genocide must not
be disregarded. The Armenian Genocide was the first in
the XX Century and is immediately linked with the 
Holocaust, dated later. One should not put any
difference between them, as the denial of the Armenian
Genocide is the denial of the Holocaust. Besides, the
hypocrisy is obvious - even today Genocides are
committed in Darfur, Rwanda and the international 
community does very little to stop them', says expert
Richard Giragosyan. Another question that comes to
mind is; what are the politicians guided by while
adopting such Resolutions? Maybe by the number of the 
victims? Does it really make any difference how many
people were killed - - one and a half million, six, or
even if only one person? Genocide is genocide,
arithmetic is not needed here. Or else once again the 
Armenians become victims for the Turkey's sake, whose
turning its back to the West is completely undesired.

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