Tomorrow is the 107th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, but justice has not still been restored. The rights of murdered and mutilated men, women and elderly, orphaned children, of Armenians forcibly displaced from their homes, and of people who have been subjected to inhuman, degrading treatment and punishment due to their ethnicity and religion have not been restored. Many of them died, carrying all those brutal scenes in front of their eyes, they died missing their relatives and homeland, expecting that at least future generations would witness the restoration of justice.
The denial policy of indisputable events, which Turkey has been conducting for more than a century, continues to challenge the effective implementation of international law aimed at establishing universal norms for the condemnation, prevention and prosecution of crimes against humanity.
Efforts to establish and improve human rights, the rule of law, and universal international mechanisms for justice newly promoted after World War I continue to be overshadowed by this condemnable policy of Turkey.
Impunity creates and justifies new crimes.
Unfortunately, the dangers of genocidal policy based on ethnic and religious hatred has not disappeared for our people. The gravest and most recent evidence is the documented Azerbaijani-Turkish joint crimes against ethnic Armenians during the 2020 war. The state-sponsored propaganda of ethnic and religious hatred and the criminal acts are still carried out by Azerbaijani state against the Armenians of Artsakh, aiming to annihilate Artsakh from its native people, destroy the monuments and samples of the centuries-old Armenian culture, erase the Armenian traces, to make impossible the life of Armenians in their homeland.
Today we pay tribute to the memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide, reaffirming that condemnation of crime, punishment of the guilty, and restoration of justice can prevent future crimes.
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