Crimes of Turkey against the Armenian people, humanity and civilization, over the past 100 years
December 08, 2019 – National Assembly (Parliament) of Western Armenia
«UNOFFICIAL PROVISIONAL TRANSLATION»
Crimes committed by successive governments of Turkey against the Armenian people, humanity and civilization, at least over the past 100 years.
In order to get an idea of the general damage caused to the Armenians during the Armenian Genocide, we must recall the crimes carried out during 1894-1923. from the three alternating Turkish governments: Sultan, Young Turkish and Kemalist.
Just list them.
1) Formation of a policy of dissemination and propaganda of Armenian-phobia, national superiority and arrogance, racist ideology of pan-Turkism.
2) Planning, propaganda, and preparation of the program for the implementation of the Armenian Genocide.
3) In the period 1894-1896, 1909, 1915-1918, 1919-1923. in the Armenian Highlands and in the Ottoman Empire, the genocide and deportation of Armenians, the looting and appropriation of property of the Armenian people.
4) In 1915 and in subsequent years, pogroms and organization of the Genocide, robbery and appropriation of property not only of Armenians, but also of Greeks, Assyrians, Arabs (later, from the late 1920s, also Kurds).
5) In 1918, the commission of aggression against the Armenians of Eastern Armenia, the imposition of an illegal Batumi treaty (June 4, 1918) in the newly formed Republic of Armenia.
6) In 1918, the genocide of Armenians living in Baku.
7) Pogroms of Armenians of Shushi in 1920, robbery of their property, arson of the city.
8) In 1920, the commission of aggression against the Republic of Armenia, the imposition of aggression on the party to unlawful treaties in 1920 of Alexandropol and in 1921 of the Moscow and Kars treaties.
9) At the expense of the rights of the Armenian people, on March 3, 1918, the Brest Agreement was signed between the Federal Socialist Republic of Russia on the one hand and the governments of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire on the other. Under this agreement, Russia transferred Western Armenia to Turkey and a significant part of Eastern Armenia. According to the agreement, Russia disbanded the Armenian volunteer regiments and withdrew troops from Armenia. The so-called illegal Moscow Treaty, signed on March 16, 1921 between the Government of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and the Turkish Grand National Assembly, was, in fact, a continuation of the Brest Supplementary Treaty and its “ratification”. The aforementioned treaties actually grossly violated the basic provisions of international law since they were signed as a result of aggression and coercion.
10) In 1937, the genocide of Armenians and Alevi in Dersim.
11) September 1955: massacres of Greeks and Armenians in Constantinople, genocide, plunder of Greek and Armenian property. According to official figures, 6-7
On September 11, 11 people were killed, while the Armenian and Greek communities indicate different numbers: 37 killed, 300 raped women, 71 churches, 3 houses for editing newspapers, 4,500 workshops and shops, 26 schools, 2,100 houses and apartments were destroyed.
12) 1974, the occupation of the northern territories of the Republic of Cyprus, the mass killings of local Greeks and Armenians, genocide, deportation, looting of property.
13) In 1894-1923, 1923-2014. destruction, destruction of Armenian civilizational values, including historical and architectural monuments, churches and cross-stones (memorial cross-stones). According to official figures, by the beginning of 1914, the total number of churches and monasteries in Western Armenia and the Ottoman Empire was 2549 (including unique early Christian monuments of the IV-V centuries), most of which were robbed, burned and destroyed during the Genocide.
14) According to UNESCO in 1974, after 1923 out of 913 preserved Armenian historical and architectural monuments, 464 were completely destroyed, 252 are in ruins, 197 need to be rebuilt. And today there is almost nothing to restore – the government of the Republic of Turkey systematically destroyed them.
15) Falsification of historical, cultural and other civilizational values of Armenians and other peoples of the region.
16) Denial of the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide and refusal to recognize the fact of its commission. Proposals for the creation of a commission of historians with an unrealistic hope of gaining time and delaying the time of reimbursement.
17) The occupation of the territory of Armenia, the borders of which were approved in accordance with the Arbitral Award of the 28th US President Woodrow Wilson of November 22, 1920
18) Since 1993, the blockade of the Republic of Armenia.
Crimes committed by the authorities of the Republic of Azerbaijan against Armenians, other peoples of the region, against humanity and civilization are a copy of the handwriting and program of the authorities of the Republic of Turkey.
Concluding remarks:
This is not a complete list of crimes against Armenians, other peoples of the region, against humanity and civilization. committed by successive governments of Turkey over the past hundred years.
To all this we add that the calculation of the amount of damage caused to the Armenian people, as well as the assessment and calculation of the total damage caused to the Armenian people and Armenia as a result of other crimes after 1923, has not yet been carried out.
However, the crimes listed above directly indicate the losses that can and should be calculated and thus prepare a full package of the true amount of compensation for damage caused to Armenians and Armenia as a result of the Armenian Genocide.
Another important point as a final word.
The massacre and deportation of Armenians committed in the period 1894 – 1923. are genocide according to the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, dated December 9, 1948. The Armenian Genocide is to be condemned in accordance with the UN Convention on the Inapplicability of the Statute of Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, dated November 26, 1968.
There is every reason to assert that the Armenian Genocide continues to this day, and will continue until this crime is condemned and compensation for damage is carried out, and until the Armenians have created the political, legal and national-state firm and unshakable foundations to ensure the realization of their right to life, development and progress.
National Assembly (Parliament) of Western Armenia
09/04/2019
