At the moment, the successors of Talaat and Kemal are committing one more act of genocide not far from the then territories of the Ottoman Empire, Vice Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Eduard Sharmazanov said during a conference on the genocide of Christian nations in Ottoman and Kemalist Turkey. The conference was held at Humboldt University in Berlin on Feb 25.
"These days the Middle East faces the same threats as Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians a century ago. Impunity gives birth to new crimes. We witness another act of genocide, because the genocide of Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians remains unpunished," said Sharmazanov, stressing that the policy of genocide denial is tantamount to the act of genocide.
He said the same concerns the policy of silence. Sharmazanov urges the world community to consolidate for recognition and condemnation of the genocides and to fight the policy of denial. "This is the only way to prevent the recurrence of that shameful and dreadful page of the history of the mankind," Sharmazanov stressed.