Armenian Genocide

What is Genocide:
...any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
-Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article II
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+++ Armenian Genocide Recognition +++

International organisations :
► The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
►Human Rights Association of Turkey, Istanbul
► International Center for Transitional Justice Report Prepared for TARC
►European Alliance of YMCAs
►Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Declaration
► Le Ligue des Droits de l'Homme
► Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Declaration
► The Association of Genocide Scholars
► Parlamenta Kurdistane Li Derveyi Welat
► Union of American Hebrew Congregations
► Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, Verdict of the Tribunal
► World Council of Churches
► UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities
► UN War Crimes Commission Report
► UN General Assembly Resolution

States :
► Argentina
► Basque
► Belgium
► Canada
► Catalonia
► Chile
► Crimea
► Cyprus
► France
► Germany
► Greece
► Italy
► Lithuania
► Lebanon
► Netherlands
► Northern Ireland
► Poland
► Quebec
► Russia
► Scotland
► Slovakia
► Sweden
► Switzerland
► Uruguay
► Vatican City
► Venezuela
► Wales


► Australia: New South Wales and South Australian State Parliaments
► Brazil: Ceará and São Paulo State Parliaments
► United States: 44 of 50 states
(US recognized the Armenian Genocide in 1975)

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