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Genocide
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"If nations are allowed
to commit genocide with impunity, to hide their guilt in a camouflage
of lies and denials, there is a real danger that other brutal
regimes will be encouraged to attempt genocides. Unless we speak
today of the Armenian genocide and unless the Government recognises
this historical fact, we shall leave this century of unprecedented
genocides with this blot on our consciences."
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Caroline, Baroness Cox, House of Lords, April 1999
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"The Turkish denial
[of the Armenian Genocide] is probably the foremost example
of historical perversion. With a mix of academic sophistication
and diplomatic thuggery -- of which we at Macquarie University
have been targets -- the Turks have put both memory and history
into reverse gear."
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Prof. Colin Tatz, Director,
Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies
(Centre for Genocide Studies Newsletter,
(December 1995-January 1996))
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"The nearest successful
example [of collective denial] in the modern era is the 80 years
of official denial by successive Turkish governments of the
1915-17 genocide against the Armenians in which 1.5 million
people lost their lives. This denial has been sustained by deliberate
propaganda, lying and coverups, forging documents, suppression
of archives, and bribing scholars."
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Stanley Cohen, Professor of Criminology,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
(Law and Social Inquiry vol. 20, no. 1 (Winter 1995):
7, 50)
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The Zoryan
Institute's pursuit of Genocide Studies has several goals:
- To honor the memory of
all victims of genocide.
- To promote international
human rights and justice through education and awareness.
- To understand the immense
impact genocide has had on the Armenian people.
- To understand the causes
of genocide through the study of history, sociology, and other disciplines,
by taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach.
- To be able to define and
predict the conditions by which genocide occurs.
- To be able to prevent
future genocide
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