Le Huffington Post published the article by Jacques Ouloussian, president of Association for Research and Archiving Armenian Memory in France, News.am reports.

The article reads, in part:

“To name things wrongly is to add to the misfortune of the world,” Albert Camus said.

The period between 1915 and 2015 is a century of denial of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey’s successive governments. Such a meaning should be given to the centennial events.

The 20th century is also a period of unfulfilled promises by world leaders. But this is not unheard of, as Niccolo Machiavelli once said: “A prince should only keep his word when it suits his purposes.”

2015 marks the centennial of denial of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey’s governments. This situation persists due to passiveness of world leaders, who put hypocrisy and silence ahead of values of human rights and justice. This century shows the defeat of global consciousness and demonstrates why the strongest is still the best.

100 years… Who can be lured to tell us the story with the words “It has been a long time, some 100 years…” No. The memory of the victims has nothing to do with an ordinary story from a novel. I speak about the genocide that will never be a past and can be repeated. It is not a single page to be harmlessly turned. We should get over other pages: those of hate, evil and vengeance.

100 years is a long and at the same a short period to make a 3000-year-old nation kneel. But as at the beginning, nothing will spare us, and we will keep fighting for the memory and rely primarily on ourselves.