A panel discussion on the Armenian Genocide issue will be convened on April 22 in London.
The event by Amnesty International UK is entitled, “Who Remembers the Armenians? 100 Years of Impunity.”
The panel discussion speakers will be Carla Garapedian, Armenian film Foundation and Project Leader, Armenian Genocides Testimonies Collection (USA); and Dr. James Smith CBE, CEO of the Aegis Trust and co-founder of the UK National Holocaust Centre (UK). The event will be chaired by Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty International UK.
“For the last three years, the Armenian Film Foundation has been working with Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation and has collected 400 testimonies of Armenian genocide survivors and eyewitnesses, filmed over the last four decades. This rare collection includes Armenians, Greeks, Arabs, Assyrians and Yezidis. The Yezidis were eyewitnesses to the Armenian genocide – and now, sadly, are seeing history repeat itself,” the Amnesty International UK official website reads.
After the screening, the panel will look at how impunity and failures to bring to justice the perpetrators of atrocities leads to future atrocities. We’ll focus on the Armenian genocide, and then look wider to subsequent crimes against humanity and genocides committed in the century since – right up to the emergence of ISIS in Syria and Iraq.