We remember…

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The Armenian Genocide is not just part of the Armenian history, it’s not the pain of a particular country or people, it’s part of world history, George Clooney said at the Second Global Forum against the crime of Genocide under way in Yerevan.

It’s been a long struggle to have things called by their names, Clooney said. He said it’s hard because we live in a complex world, but added that “one cannot deny what has happened.”

“When someone is trying to annihilate a whole human race, culture, people, that’s genocide, there can be no other version of it.”

Time and time again we repeat “Never again” after Germany, but after that, we have had Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur. The truth is that it happens over and over again.

“What we are doing today has two objectives. First, we have to look back into the past and remember that  it’s not the pain of a particular country or people, it’s part of world history. Second, we need to move forward,” Clooney added.

The essence of the Aurora Prize is that the founders are trying to value the heroism of people, who risk their lives to ensure a better life for others, he stressed.

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