International Group of 2400 descendants of the Genocide
victims appealed to the President in open letter
08-04-2009 16:28:00 | Armenia | Politics
Yerevan, April 8, Noyan Tapan. International Group of 2400
descendants of the victims of 1915 Genocide in Ottoman Imperia
appealed to Armenia's President Serge Sarkisian in open letter.
It is stated, particularly:
"By our activities we implement the Declaration of Human
Rights, which is the basis of the world democracies, in which
we live. Armenians from all over world have numerous rights.
1. Right of choice: continue expecting for the public
recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey, which has not
been accomplished for more than 90 years, or stop waiting and
start exercising own rights, privately and with private rights.
2. Right of choice: to obtain inherited property, that is,
houses and lands, belonging to our ascendants or to receive the
replacement of their value.
3. Right of choice: to receive today the compensation in
the sum of estate (in the form of investments, insurance, debts,
etc), and continue waiting for the solution of the issue by
public law".
According to the letter, the purpose of the group is to
create a large-scale judicial precedent for reciving a partial
pecuniary compensation of inherited property. "This precedent
will become a mechanism, which will enable any successor of
Genocide: Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Ezids, start a process
for obtaining the whole inherited property.
Over the past several years our activities on protecting
human rights have been focused on the Armenian nationwide
humanitarian program "In the Memory of Successors".
Today more than a hundred countries of the world, including
Turkey, have joined efforts for the obligatory law of bills and
circulating notes. This law enables to create a circulating note
equal to the value of the decedent's estate. Court examines the
validity of presented papers and the fact of notes being in
financial circulation. The Decision of the court is obligatory
for the countries subjected to the application of the law.
An Heir will receive the sum equal to the circulating note
from the financial market without being aware, who would buy his
note. The ultimate purchaser of the note will be definitely
Turkey's Treasury, since the circulating note will be part of
ultimate transaction between Turkey and its partners.
Today all 2400 descendants and participants of the "In the
memory of Successors" program, who voluntarily have purchased
circulating notes and put them in circulation, are aware, that
the decision of the court, besides economical, has also
political implications.
Thus, they make a request to the head of the Armenian State
for presenting his attitude to activities of the participants of
"In the memory of successors" initiative. Currently, "before
suing to a law-court, admit the fact of financial circulation of
notes of 2400 true heirs", stated in the letter.