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Bill Number: 571/04
Type of Bill: DECLARACION
National Senate
Secretary of Parliament
Publications Director
(S-0571/04)
Declaration
National Senate:
Declares:
1. – In solidarity with the Armenian Community, the victims of the first
genocide of the 20th century, to implement a new commemoration of the crime
that ended the lives of more than 1.5 million Armenians by the Turkish State
between the years 1915-1918.
2. – To condemn all forms of human rights violations of people, and not to
allow crimes against humanity to go unpunished.
Marcela F. Lescano - Diana Conti - Mario A. Losada -
Fundamentals
Mr. President:
After many years, this Honorable Body in accordance with the large number of
parliaments including Uruguay, Brazil, France, Switzerland, Greece, Italy,
Lebanon, Bulgaria, Belgium, Russia, the European Parliament and many others,
commemorate the date April 24, the beginning of the genocide against the
Armenian People by the Turkish State in 1915.
Our Chamber has done this exercise every year since 1984, with the
conviction that such an exercise of human rights to demand the end of
impunity provides improvements in validating human rights. The silence, the
denial, will cause genocide to happen again. The victims wait patiently for
our voice—through of our actions as Legislators.
It is important to emphasize that the five conditions which were established
in the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention, were analyzed and compared
with the facts of the horror of the lives of these people. We have heard for
several years, innumerable testimonies and recently, seen a large number of
documentation about the cruel historical reality which has been released.
Also a declaration was signed by 126 intellectuals and researchers of the
Holocaust, including the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel in the year
2000, that affirmed conclusively the fact of the extensive history of the
Armenian Genocide and urged the democracies of the world to officially
recognition it. We ask for, the endorsement of the present declaration.
Marcela F. Lescano - Diana Conti - Mario A. Losada-
Unoffical Translation
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