Trust writes to the Armenia, Turkey, History and Christian groups of the Parliament

The Armenian Genocide Trust has written to 60 Members of Parliament who are members of all-party parliamentary groups on Armenia, Turkey, history, prevention of genocide and Christianity with a copy of the International Association of Genocide Scholars' letter to the Prime Minister of Turkey, urging them to sign EDM 357. IAGS' letter categorically rejects the denial of the Armenian Genocide and re-affirms indisputable scholarly evidence which defines its planned and determined implementation as genocide. The complete letter is available here (PDF) and the following is an excerpt from the letter: The Armenian Genocide is corroborated by the international scholarly, legal, and human rights community: 1. Polish jurist Raphael Lemkin, when he coined the term genocide in 1944,cited the Turkish extermination of the Armenians and the Nazi extermination of the Jews as defining examples of what he meant by genocide. 2. The killings of the Armenians is genocide as defined by the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. 3. In 1997 the International Association of Genocide Scholars, an organization of the world's foremost experts on genocide, unanimously passed a formal resolution affirming the Armenian Genocide. 4. 126 leading scholars of the Holocaust including Elie Wiesel and Yehuda Bauer placed a statement in the New York Times in June 2000 declaring the "incontestable fact of the Armenian Genocide" and urging western democracies to acknowledge it. 5. The Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide (Jerusalem), the Institute for the Study of Genocide (NYC) have affirmed the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide. 6. Leading texts in the international law of genocide such as William A. Schabas's Genocide in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2000) cite the Armenian Genocide as a precursor to the Holocaust and as a precedent for the law on crimes against humanity.