24 June 2006

BBC and the Armenian Genocide: not enough time

Despite memorial events across the world on April 24 to commemorate the Armenian Genocide the BBC has failed to air a single mention of the Genocide before, on or after 24 April 2006. An official complaint to the BBC Information received a standard reply alleging lack of time and resources to cover all worthy events. We beg to differ. The complaint was raised to the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit (ECU), however the reply from the ECU made it clear that the issue in question is outside their responsibility. We intend to take this complaint further to the Executive Board and if necessary the Board of Governors to ensure that a massacre of over one million human beings less than a century ago is recognised by the Corporation as worthy of remembrance.