Cynicism and incompetence? The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has entrusted its presidency in early July to Turkey. A decision that is almost unnoticed, yet … How indeed not surprising that this venerable institution that has particular duties to include or remove sites on the World Heritage List and check their good conservation, could appoint its management genocidal and denialist state has continued to carry out the annihilation of the cultural heritage of the people killed by him? There are countless churches destroyed, turned into stables or mosques. For one of them restored in extremis to Akhtamar (on Lake Van) – because of international pressure – in Diyarbakir or another – through the Armenian capital and courage of a Kurdish mayor – how many monuments and Goods were they robbed, looted, demolished or distorted in order to erase all traces of the presence of Armenians in their historic territories? [1]
Besides the denial, the company of “cultural cleansing” of Asia Minor is the political continuation of the genocide of 1915. So can we being stunned by the decision of UNESCO, which comes in addition to the year its centenary.
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