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An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians?
Geoffrey Robertson
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Paperback. Geoffrey Robertson QC tackles the difficult debate surrounding the Armenian Genocide. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUR; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 316.
On 24th April 2015 people around the world commemorated the centenary of the death of over one million Armenians. In their eyes, and in those of many around the world, they will be remembering a genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire. Turkey has always explained the dead as simply victims of a vicious civil war, and continues to this day to refuse to acknowledge the events as constituting genocide.This argument has become, in turn, an international issue. Twenty national parliaments in democratic countries have voted to recognise the genocide, but Britain and the USA continue to equivocate for fear, it ... Read more
On 24th April 2015 people around the world commemorated the centenary of the death of over one million Armenians. In their eyes, and in those of many around the world, they will be remembering a genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire. Turkey has always explained the dead as simply victims of a vicious civil war, and continues to this day to refuse to acknowledge the events as constituting genocide.This argument has become, in turn, an international issue. Twenty national parliaments in democratic countries have voted to recognise the genocide, but Britain and the USA continue to equivocate for fear, it ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
316g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849548977
SKU
V9781849548977
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About Geoffrey Robertson
Geoffrey Robertson QC is founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers, the UK's leading human rights legal practice. A barrister, academic, author and broadcaster, Robertson is the author of celebrated books including The Justice Game, The Tyrannicide Brief, Mullahs Without Mercy and Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK. He lives in London.
Reviews for An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians?
"With a brilliant display of forensic advocacy, one of the greatest legal minds on the international stage forces a shameful but inconvenient truth upon the world." Helena Kennedy QC "Geoffrey Robertson, with his usual forensic brilliance, makes the case for justice for the Armenian victims of the 1915 massacre." Sir Keir Starmer KCB QC "A devastating, searing indictment of complicity ... Read more