By questioning the Genocide, Pashinyan encourages Turkish and Azeri denialists

I met the word "genocide" for the first time in the 1980s while I was studying international law.1 About ten years later, it began to be used in the media to describe the horrors that occurred in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.In 1998, I participated in the drafting of the Statute of the International Criminal Court, which included genocide as one of the four crimes for which the Court would be competent — with war crimes, crimes against human…

By questioning the Genocide, Pashinyan encourages Turkish and Azeri denialists

Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan at Tsiternakaberd (Photo: RA Prime Minister’s office, April 24, 2024) There has been much debate recently among Armenians about Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s controversial statements regarding the Armenian Genocide. Pashinyan’s supporters argue that he has not denied the Armenian Genocide, but has merely asked questions. Meanwhile, his opponents condemn him for denying the Genocide or raising unnecessary questions …