Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Генацыд армян" in Belarusian language version.
That this assembly of the Association of Genocide Scholars in its conference held in Montreal, June 11—13, 1997, reaffirms that the mass murder of Armenians in Turkey in 1915 is a case of genocide which conforms to the statutes of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. It further condemns the denial of the Armenian Genocide by the Turkish government and its official and unofficial agents and supporters.
Between April and August 1915 Armenians from almost all major centers of the empire were ordered to leave their homes, then were either killed near their towns or villages or else deported into remote regions, where, denied food and water, they rapidly died. These measures were undertaken against Armenians located both near the international frontier and far from the battle zone;
Dr. Lepsius took considerable care with the figures he used, although perhaps he should have been more circumspect in accepting the figure of 1,845,450 given by the Armenian patriarchate in Constantinople as the number of Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. Nevertheless, it is unlikely to be far wrong, if we accept the figures that Enver Pasha gave to Dr. Ernst Jackh as early as the end of August 1915 for the number of Armenians dead (300,000) and those quoted by the German Embassy on October 4, 1916. Of the approximately 2 million Armenians living in the empire, 1,500,000 had been deported and between 800,000 and 1,000,000 of those had been killed. Lepsius initially estimated the number of Armenians who had died in the empire at 1,000,000; in the 1919 edition of the Bericht he revised that figure to 1,100,000. Lepsius put the number of eastern Armenians killed during the Ottoman invasion of Transcaucasia in 1918 at between 50,000 and 100,000. Another German closely involved at the time, Ernst Sommer of the Deutscher Hilfsbund, estimated in 1919 that 1,400,000 Armenians had been deported, of whom at the time scarcely more than 250,000 were alive (Sommer, 1919). <…> Lepsius also estimated that the number of Armenians forcibly converted to Islam was between 250,000 and 300,000. There was no religious element in the forced conversions to Islam at this time. The Ittihadist rulers of the empire were unbelievers. By contrast, some Turkish Muslim leaders, imams and hodjas, expressed disapproval at what the Armenians were compelled to endure. The harsh measures against the Armenians of Kutahia were declared theologically invalid by the local mufti Forced conversion had instead a political motive: to destroy the Armenians' identity, to turn Armenians into «Turks» so that they would appear in the other column of statistics and thus weaken or nullify any Armenian demands for autonomy or independence. Some Armenians appear to have returned to their faith after the armistice, but no figures exist for them.
According to the numbers I have accepted (1,750,000 prewar population and 1,108,000 survivors) the death toll comes to about 642,000 lives <…>
The exact number of those who died is a matter of dispute, but most historians agree it was around 800000 to 1000000 people.
Although this topic has not yet received systematic analysis, it clearly points to official complicity at a very high level, since mujahirs from Thrace could not reach Cilicia or Turkish Armenia without organization and planning.
Пресекая оспаривание факта или юридической квалификации преступлений, (…) которые им самим признаются и квалифицируются как таковые, законодатель совершил неконституционное покушение на свободу выражения мнений и общения
Indignant that the perpetrators of the Armenian genocide had largely escaped prosecution, Lemkin, who was a young state prosecutor in Poland, began lobbying in the early 1930s for international law to criminalize the destruction of such groups.
At around the same time, on March 29, 2000, the Swedish Parliament passed a formal resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide, this after a Swedish parliamentary report asserted that «An official statement and recognition of the genocide of the Armenian is important and necessary.» Sweden urged Turkey to do so as well. Canada also recognized the genocide. (The Italian and Austrian parliaments as well as the Swiss and the German parliaments recognized and debated this issue of the Armenian Genocide without a conclusion.)
