Genocide Intervention Network

When the peace conference held in Paris in January 1919, almost all participants predicted that the provision be made for an independent state of Armenia was formed within the last safe in ‘great power’ can make amends for the killing and destruction policy they suffered from RA for 40 years. But it can not, indeed, suffering and misery in Armenia pathetic desperation by hunger worse in the years after the war than at any time, except for the 1915-1916 mass killings Ittihadist organized. No one statesman in Paris, say or do makes a difference in Armenia, a statement of their weight and pedantic arise when people read them as statements that are designed to give the speaker an aura of charity demands well-being. For all the good they do, they Armenia can also be a random syllable nonsense. Thus, the peace conference should not keep us long.

Inspired by the Declaration of the Allies, and to ensure Armenians have put large claims in Paris. Boghos Nubar is already, head of the Armenian National Delegation. However, the delegation arrived in February 1919 represented the Republic of Armenia, headed by writer and poet Avedis Aharonian (Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia). Aharonian and Nubar very different in background and outlook, Nubar, originating from the Levant, a minority of wealthy, comfortable among the statesmen of Paris, are very conservative by nature, Aharonian, an intelligent man ironic, as strong as a kind of Caucasians, who have given birth; Nubar limited faith in the “civilized” west, Aharonian more skeptical, believing how will anyone ever closer to the turbulent birth of an independent Armenia that the people themselves the power in the country is more valuable than a guarantee to foreign statesman. Nevertheless, the two delegations agreed to include them in the “All-Armenian delegation,” and approve all major issues. They presented a joint memorandum to the Peace Conference in February 1919. Review of the period of Ottoman oppression, and the huge losses that Armenians suffered during the war, now they claim that their independence. Their country is the inclusion of the “six vilayets” Turkish Armenia (Van, Bitlis, Diyarbakir, Kharput, Sivas and Erzurum), except for some non-marginal Armenian district, province of Trabzon as to provide access to the sea. It should also include the Republic of Armenia, as it was then constituted plus Karabakh Mountains to the east, south and Zangezur north-lands of those who claimed that from Georgia to Armenia. But that’s not all. Armenia has also claimed four district Cilician Armenia, on the Mediterranean coast, where there is a sufficiently large Armenian population comes from the medieval kingdom. Armenia is a great country, but the proposals differ only in some small special from the British and American proposals at the time. In Armenia, the country will be only a small minority, but Armenians claim that their population estimates included in the study of some of Armenians were killed as a result of Turkish government policy from 1915-1916. Failure to do so would be to adopt the Turkish government-sponsored genocide. This argument is also strongly placed Sir Eyre Crowe, a member of the British delegation in Paris. He wrote to a colleague in London December 1, 1919: “To consider and decide, based solely on the number of Armenia, of course, would amount to encouraging and countenancing of Turkey in the past methods of dealing with the subject of nationality they are!” Nevertheless, throughout 1919 and 1920, the Turks and their supporters naive Armenian claims of land, claiming that no Armenians living in the area, pretending ignorance of the policy from 1915 to 1916. In their submissions, the Armenians asked for protection for 20 years and the Allies or the League of Nations, and the direct supervision of such Mandatory.

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