Ara Sarafian about Genocide

Prominent Armenian scholar Ara Sarafian, an archival historian by training who prepared and wrote an introduction to an "uncensored edition" of the book, James Bryce and Arnold Toynbee, The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915-1916., gave a paper on the "Denial of the Armenian Genocide by the British Government." on 24 March (2001), at the venerable Marx House at Clerkenwell Green in the city of London.
Sarafian made reference to the definition of genocide, as specified in Article 2 of the 1948 United Nations genocide convention. He drew attention to the key qualitative element in the definition, that genocide can be committed not simply by mass murder, but by other means as well. He argued that whereas the Armenian Genocide was carried out primarily through mass murder, other genocides have been through a cocktail of measures; the ongoing destruction of Kurds in Turkey, for example, has included systematic impoverishment, forced assimilation, and murder--superintended by the Turkish state.
Sarafian noted that Denialists, including the British government, simply ignore the existence of facts, the way Holocaust deniers ignore facts surrounding the events of World War II.
The Armenian Genocide, according to Sarafian, exemplifies how states can commit genocide and rewrite history.

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