The text of a lecture given to the International Conference on “Lasting peace in Africa”, April 17-18, 2004, in Kigali, Rwanda
GENOCIDES IN THE 20THE CENTURY AND LESSONS TO HUMANITY (A Brief Reflection) His Holiness Aram I The 20th Century was an age of genocides, and the list is depressingly long: Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Kurds, Tutsis, Croats, Muslims, Albanians. The international community was always slow to respond to these mass killings, and in some…