14 04 2007 - Rmandata la Mostra del genocidio di Rwanda

Se ne discute già da una settimana: Una mostra organizzata dall'ONU per commemorare il 13° anniversario del genocidio di Rwanda viene rimandata "indefinitly" scriva New York Times su pressione del governo turco perchè in un testo relativo alla definizione del genocidio si ricordava quello degli armeni perpetrato dai turchi nel 1915...ricordato dall'avocato polacco Rafael mpkin..!
Le autorità dell'ONU hanno ceduto alla domanda dei turchi e la mostra è stata rimandata ..!
Il New York Times, commentando l'accaduto, ribadisce che gli sforzi e la presa di posizione negazionista della Turchia di censurare ogni evento o discussione sul genocidio non fa che accrescere l'interesse dei media sul tema.(a loro sfavore come vediamo!)
"Ban Ki Moon, in quanto nuovo segretario dell'ONU, ha ancora molto da imparare se vuole servire onorevolmente e con efficaccia l'ONU che è tenuta a rappresentare le leggi internazionali ed la voce massima contro i genocidi .." aggiunge il New York Times.

Associazione dela Comunità Armena di Roma e del Lazio

Original Message From: "Jean ECKIAN"
New York Times
Editorial

More than 90 years ago, when Turkey was still part of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish nationalists launched an extermination campaign there that killed 1.5 million Armenians. It was the 20th century's first genocide. The world noticed, but did nothing, setting an example that surely emboldened such later ractitioners as Hitler, the Hutu leaders
of Rwanda in 1994 and today's Sudanese president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

Turkey has long tried to deny the Armenian genocide. Even in the modern-day Turkish republic, which was not a party to the killings, using the word genocide in reference to these events is prosecuted as a serious crime. Which makes it all the more disgraceful that United Nations officials are bowing to Turkey's demands and blocking this week's scheduled opening of an exhibit at U.N. headquarters
commemorating the 13th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide because it mentions the mass murder of the Armenians.

Ankara was offended by a sentence that explained how genocide came to be recognized as a crime under international law: "Following World War I, during which one million Armenians were murdered in Turkey, Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin urged the League of Nations to recognize crimes of barbarity as international crimes." The exhibit's organizer, a British-based antigenocide group, was willing to omit the words "in Turkey." But that was not enough for the U.N.'s craven new leadership,and the exhibit has been indefinitely postponed.

It's odd that Turkey's leaders have not figured out by now that every time they try to censor discussion of the Armenian genocide, they only bring wider attention to the subject and link today's democratic
Turkey with the now distant crime. As for Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and his inexperienced new leadership team, they have once
again shown how much they have to learn if they are to honorably and effectively serve the United Nations, which is supposed to be the embodiment of international law and a leading voice against genocide.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/opinion/13fri2.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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