ArmInfo. "Hate speech" is the result of a huge chain of crimes based on intolerance, discrimination, misanthropy and racism. About this in his speech at the PACE meeting, a member of the delegation of the National Assembly of Armenia to the PACE Vladimir Vardanyan. According to the press service of the parliament, the MP noted that the existence of racism threatens the establishment of a democratic society, the protection of human rights and guarantees of the rule of law.
"Hate speech is especially dangerous when it serves as a basis for preparing and implementing genocide and crimes against humanity. It is aimed at humiliating, degrading, degrading, demonizing certain groups of people and, as a result, dehumanizing, preparing fertile ground for the realization of these mass atrocities. Not Incidentally, with all genocides, hate speech was used as a catalyst, contributing to the commission of these crimes. Attaching the label of an "outsider" and "traitor" to each Armenian during the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire, the publication of extremist anti-Semitic newspapers during the Holocaust, radio programs during the Rwandan genocide were pillars of the genocidal propaganda machine, "Vardanyan stressed.
According to him, today, when we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, we consider it necessary to emphasize that the International Criminal Court of Rwanda has repeatedly acknowledged in its judicial verdicts a causal link between incitement to hatred and incitement to genocide. "However, it is extremely disturbing that even today, after the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, after more than 70 years of the Nuremberg judicial process, we still face Armeniophobia, anti- Semitism and other manifestations of xenophobia in Europe.
It may seem incredible, but even now in the Council of Europe member states there are some leaders, public and political figures who, in their daily agenda using offensive language and various labels, continue to spread hatred, aiming to divide their societies into "friends" and "outsiders" , on desirable and undesirable groups of people. Unfortunately, hate speech is widely and unscrupulously used in politics - as an electoral tool to create a false image of the enemy and attract a disgruntled electorate, "the deputy stressed. He also noted that the degree of hate speech is becoming even more disturbing in the digital age, when social networks can unprecedented consequences. Therefore, for all societies aimed at protecting human rights, it becomes imperative to consolidate efforts against this evil, revealing the most negative manifestations between people, and in the name of a brighter future. "I urge all member states of the Council of Europe and their parliaments to form a united front to prevent and condemn all manifestations of hatred, make it necessary and proportionate by all means to turn Europe into a region free of hate speech," Vladimir concluded.