Dadrian At Czech Senate To Address Armenian Genocide

A one-day international conference titled 'The Armenian Genocide' will be held on April 4 at the Czech Senate, Noyan Tapan reported, citing the Radio Liberty. The conference has been initiated by the Armenian Club of Prague and Senate member Jaromit Shtetina.

Professor Vahakn Dadrian of the Zorian Institute will make a report on the documents kept in the Turkish archives. Prominent German human rights advocate Tessa Hoffman will present the issue of the Armenian Genocide recognition in the light of human rights. European Armenian Federation Chairperson Hilda Choboian will speak of the European Union's role in the recognition process.

The Turkish views in the coference will be presented by Yelda Ozcan, a Turkish scholar residing in Germany. Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakosian will attend the conference.

YERKIR Reported.

When he was asked about the conference, Senator Jaromir Stetina the man who organised this conference, he told Radio Praha that :

This is preparing for a special declaration law in our Senate. This law is very simple - recognising the events of 1915 in Armenia as genocide."

And when he was asked, why should the Czech Republic - a small country with little connection to Armenia - become involved in this way? He said :

"This is not a problem of the Czech Republic, it is a problem of all human beings. The problem of genocide is alive. Last century was a century of many genocides. And genocides are continuing now. There's a genocide of the Chechen people, for example. One month ago I visited Rwanda. In Kigali, I went to a museum of the 1994 genocide. There was one room about the genocide, a genocide which is almost 100 years old. And people in Kigali, in the museum, said we have to recognise all genocides, because we can stop future genocides by this."