Zoryan Institute

Dear Zoryan Friends,

We are pleased to announce that A Crime of Silence: The Armenian Genocide (1985), the official record of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, which has been out-of-print for some time, is now available as a free PDF file on our website

A Crime of Silence

The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (successor to the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Vietnam) was created to investigate major international crimes that no national or international body was willing or able to hear. A special hearing was conducted in Paris on April 13-16, 1984 to investigate the Armenian Genocide. The Tribunal’s thirty-five member panel included three Nobel Prize laureates and eminent jurists, theologians, academics and political figures from all over the world.

This was the first international forum to clearly affirm the Armenian Genocide. A highlight of the Tribunal’s verdict was that the Young Turk government during WWI was guilty of genocide, an international crime for which the Turkish state today must assume responsibility.

This volume reproduces the testimony, evidence and papers delivered at the Tribunal’s hearings, as well as the full verdict.

We hope you find this resource interesting, informative, and educational.

Best regards,

Torrey Swan, Program & Outreach Coordinator
International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
(A Division of the Zoryan Institute)
255 Duncan Mill Rd, Suite 310
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M3B 3H9

Tel: 416-250-9807 Fax:416-512-1736

www.zoryaninstitute.org