“Of course, it is necessary to react, I think it’s a disgraceful decision”, – said Ruben Safrastyan, Turkish analyst, in the conversation with Aravot.am, referring to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) dated December 17, according to which, in 1915, denial of the Armenian Genocide is consistent with the principle of the rights of freedom of expression.
“How can such a decision be adopted, especially by the European Parliament, which was the first time in 1987 and since then several times reapproved that the events of 1915 were a genocide, and it is wrong to connect it with the right to freedom of expression, because if the genocide is denied, which was adopted by the European Parliament, it means that the crime that had happened, in our time gets the approval by the deniers, which is dangerous,” said Ruben Safrastyan, according to whom, this is dangerous not only from the perspective of justice, because it is fabricated and distorted, but from the perspective that a road is opened to commit new crimes of genocide in the future. “The monstrous crime happened in the past, like the Armenian genocide, in fact, its deniers receive the approval by the Court, this means that in the future the forces that had prepared the genocide, and were approved in their denial, they will receive a lot of support,” added Ruben Safrastyan.
Eva HAKOBYAN
