YEREVAN, 26 MARCH, ARMENPRESS. The Spanish "EL PAIS" periodical’s well-known analyst Antonio Elorza reflected on the Armenian Genocide and the events of the centennial in his article titled "Armenia. XX Century's First Genocide", which was published on March 25. As reports “Armenpress”, the article particularly runs as follows:  

 “The ideas of the prominent Turkish intellectuals Pamuk and Dink, which doubt the official denial of the horrible crime against humanity carried out one hundred years ago, continue to remain topical. “Who today is still talking about the extermination of Armenians". Hitler's statement, made in 1939 August 22, was related to the implementation of the campaign against Poland and it was the evidence of his war policy with genocidal nature, which ended with Shoah.

The Armenian massacres had a huge influence on a young Polish-Jew Raphael Lemkin, who later would exert all possible efforts directed to the developing an international regulatory framework, which allowed to prevent the recurrence of similar crimes, particularly after Hitler’s rise to power.

Lemkin didn’t succeed and as a result the Nazi crimes were sentenced “ex post facto” in Nuremberg from the position of distrust toward the defined norms. And despite the fact that Lemkin succeeded to reach the condemnation of crime of “genocide” by the international community, even the personal achievement did not result in the development and implementation of the international law, which guaranteed the punishment in the case of such crimes. As a result, these norms were only carried out in the case of the weakness of guilty state (Rwanda, Serbia).

The 1915 Armenian tragedy literally complies with the characterization of the term “genocide”, which had been developed by Lemkin. A number of criminal acts were carried out, which aimed at the extermination of a people based on the developed program of the alleged racist ideologues and were dubbed by such additional events, such as physical destruction and property of mass alienation.” (THE FULL VERSION OF THE ARTICLE IS AVAILABLE IN ARMENIAN)