N. Lygeros
The momentum of the recognition of the Genocide of the Armenians
due to the anniversary of the 100 years, is more powerful than some may think.
Belgium provides us with a tangible paradigm. The ethics committee, ethics and
arbitration of the political party CDH decided to expel from the party an MP
that didn’t want to recognize the genocide.
For a long time she was playing
diplomatically with fire. But with the current occasion of the centennial she
couldn’t hide that she was for barbarity due to her origin. Therefore a simple
issue of the centennial caused the assembly of the political party’s committee.
Even more interesting is that this decision puts pressure on the other large
political party of Belgium which has not yet taken a clear position for the
stance that its members should have. But we see that the momentum of the
recognition allows the effective counterattack against barbarity, but also
against the continuers of the genocide of memory. Now there is political cost
when one is expressed openly in favor of barbarity. And this constitutes a
change of phase for the political circumstances but also the political parties.
It is interesting to imagine the consequences on other countries of the
European Union but also to Greece itself, where party politics cover up with
great ease tendencies in favor of the denial of the genocide under the pretext
of the artificial friendship that led us nowhere for so many decades, because
you simply cannot erase the centuries of history without committing another
genocide. The paradigm of Belgium is wise and just. We could best say that they
acted, as Hellenism would do, who loves so much freedom and Justice.