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During the Second Global Forum against the Crime of Genocide, Professor of international law at Middlesex University in the United Kingdom, William Schabas said that many countries around the world continue denying the Armenian Genocide and many others knowing well what happened still avoid recognition. According to the professor, that avoidance is based on the ‘cynical political considerations’ of those countries.

Schabas said that it’s regrettable that the Great Britain, which condemned these massacres back when they were happening, doesn’t maintain the same position.

Besides, Schabas thinks that the European Court of Human Rights doesn’t have a fair position on the Armenian Genocide either.

“This very court made an ambiguous verdict on Turkish Perincek, thus expressing its incomplete position on the Armenian Genocide,” Schabas said.

He also insisted that the current refugee crisis is the result of the Armenian Genocide.

“During those years, for the first time a committee on refugees was created by Fridtjof Nansen, who described the atrocities against Armenians. However, these issues were back on the agenda after another genocide following the Second World War when there was a refugee problem,” stated Schabas saying that truth and justice will triumph eventually.