The issue of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey was discussed at an international conference at the University of Hiroshima the other day. As the Center for Armenian Genocide Studies told “Arminfo” agency, in the course of the conference experts from Germany, US, Australia, Switzerland and Great Britain suggested using a new perspective of genocide studies, which is far from an exclusive consecutive study of the Holocaust and, in the scientists’ opinion, slows down the goal of scientific generalization via comparison. In the course of the conference experts discussed issues referring to the Armenian Genocide, as well as genocide in Rwanda, East Timor, Cambodia, Indonesia and Central Sudan. Special attention was paid to a work by Rafael Lemkin, who participated in the working out of the UN convention on punishing and preventing genocide. In his yet not published autobiography R. Lemkin writes that the unpunished Armenian Genocide of the beginning of last century has had much influence upon him.
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