Former French ambassador to Armenia on need to commemorate Armenian  Genocide 

ArmInfo. Former ambassador of France to Armenia Jonathan Lacote has posted the follopwing message on his Facebook account: 

April 24 marks in Armenia, France and in many countries of the world,  the day of commemoration of the Armenian Genocide.

Why should we remember the Armenian Genocide? Answers :

"Who remembers the extermination of Armenians?" > [Hitler to his  generals, August 22, 1939]

 "I was telling the Silence the story of the extermination of the  Armenian people. I make silence aware that it was of paramount  importance to talk about it openly. I'm saying: Everyone should know  about it! Because how can we prevent another extinction, if everyone  claims they didn't know and prevented anything because these are  things we can't even imagine? > [Edgar Hilsenrath, "The Tale of the  Last Thought"]

"Why is a man punished when he kills another man?" Why is the murder  of a million people a lesser crime than the murder of a single  individual? > [Raphael Lemkin, after the Tehlirian trial]

These three quotes seem to form a fictitious dialogue between the  dictator nazi the German Jewish writer Edgar Hilsenrath and the  lawyer Raphael Lemkin (originally from Lviv and creator of the word  "genocide") and remind us that a genocide is caused by those who  commit it but also by those who do denies it, from those who leave it  unpunished and from those who forget it.

Armenians are still threatened today because Armenians. And France  stands by them.

Let's be on the right side of memory, truth and justice.

[Hoping Facebook doesn't block my account after posting this, like it  did two years ago]