Gagik Tsarukyan calls for fight for justice in recognition of  Armenian Genocide

ArmInfo.  The memory of the martyrs of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire obliges us to be strong and united, to never forget, and to never give up. Gagik  Tsarukyan, leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), wrote this  on his Facebook page on the occasion of the 111th anniversary of the  Armenian Genocide.

He recalled that on April 24, the entire Armenian nation honors the  memory of the 1.5 million innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide.  "Time is powerless to dull the pain that the descendants of the  Genocide victims still experience until historical justice is  restored. This is not just Remembrance Day. This is a day of our  conscience, our historical memory, our national identity," Tsarukyan  stated.

However, the PAP leader believes that the Armenian people should not  simply grieve - they must live, fight for justice, and strengthen  their homeland so that the entire civilized world will see that the  will of Armenians is unwavering. "Let us never forget or renounce our  past, and together defend our national dignity. Let us build together  the Armenia our ancestors dreamed of. I bow to the memory of our holy  martyrs," Tsarukyan concluded. Let us recall that on April 24, 1915,  in Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, the  extermination of Armenian subjects began. It began with the arrests  of representatives of the Armenian intelligentsia-writers and poets,  architects and parliamentarians-and then escalated into the complete  extermination of Armenians. As a result of these actions by the  Turkish authorities, more than 1.5 million Armenians were deported,  starved, and tortured to death.

The Armenian Genocide has been recognized by the Council of Europe  (1998, 2001), the European Parliament (1987, 2000, 2002, 2005), the  UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of  Minorities[7], the World Council of Churches, the Parliamentary  Coalition of South American Countries (Mercosur), and the Parliament  of Latin America (2015).

The Armenian Genocide has been recognized and condemned by many  countries and influential international organizations. The first to  officially recognize and condemn the mass killings of Armenians was  the Parliament of Uruguay (1965). The extermination of Armenians has  been officially recognized as genocide (under international law) and  condemned by: Austria (joint statement of the chairmen of  parliamentary factions, 2015), Argentina (2 laws, 5 resolutions;  2004, 2007), Armenia (1964 as part of the USSR, 1988, 1990), Belgium  (1998, 2015), Bulgaria (2007, 2015), Bolivia (2014), Brazil (2015),  Vatican City (2015), Venezuela (2005), Germany (2016), Greece (1996),  Italy (2000, 2019), Canada (1996, 2002, 2004), Cyprus (1975, 1982),  Latvia (2021), Lebanon (1997), Libya (2019); On April 18, 2019, the  Interim Government of Libya adopted a resolution recognizing the  Armenian Genocide. Lithuania (2005), Luxembourg (2015), Netherlands  (2004, 2018), Paraguay (2015), Poland (2005), Portugal (2019), Russia  (1995), Syria (2020), Slovakia (2004), USA (2019, 2021); On April 24,  2021, US President Joe Biden officially recognized the Armenian  Genocide. Uruguay (1965), France (1998, 2000, 2001, 2006), Czech  Republic (2015, 2017, 2020), Chile (2007), Switzerland (2003), Sweden  (2010). Turkey continues its policy of denial of this crime against  humanity.