It is difficult to understand some individuals that decided to consign to oblivion the Armenia people’s greatest tragedy, the analyst Juan Gabriel Tokatlian says in an article published by Diario Armenia. What is going on is not a usual thing, and the Armenian Government’s position on the Genocide committed by Turks from 1915 to 1923 deserves a special analysis.

In this context he singles out negatives and positive premises. Among the negative ones are the intellectual decline of the ancient people, opportunistic policy and a potential new traumatic experience. Among positive premises is the normal wish to get over the tragedy and reach a true reconciliation of the nations. All the aforementioned arguments are conducive to the historical facts passing into oblivion.

This unusual situation teaches lessons. Two-year “tactful” negotiations through Swiss mediation were followed by the signing of two Armenian-Turkish protocols. The first of them, which deals with the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations, can be improved and pit into practice. No doubt, the two nations have to improve their relations sooner or later. The second protocol, which provides for a scientific study of historical facts and archives by means of an intergovernmental commission, is unacceptable. The only historical aspect is the undeniable fact of the Armenian Genocide, which is common knowledge. It would be tantamount to calling the Jewish Holocaust into question. This is great regress for the Armenian Cause. This step does not heal the wounds. We can ask: do we have to prove the events foreign diplomats, doctors, clergymen, and observers have proved by having collected numerous facts, pictures, and documentaries? They are ubiquitous, but the West never properly responded.

The Armenian Diaspora has always been supportive of the Armenian Government in this matter. The Armenian Genocide has always been of social, rather than state, nature for the Armenians It has always been obvious that defending the fact of the Armenian Genocide is immediately connected with Armenia’s destiny. In this respect, the second Armenian-Turkish protocol is disgracefully absurd. Not only does Turkey refuse to admit the Armenian Genocide, but the Armenian Government is calling the fact into question by its actions, writes Gabriel Tokatlian.