Claims for reparations: identification of legal precedents applicable to the Armenian context

Abstract

History of the World contains innumerable records of violence committed by humans against humans. Examples of the twentieth century include the Holocaust of World War II, repression and torture under Pinochet's Chile 2, Argentina's 'dirty war' 3, the forced removal of Serbians, Croatians and Bulgarians from their historical territories in Balkans, invasion of Turks in Cyprus in 1975, widespread and systematic persecution under the South African apartheid regime and of course Genocide of the Armenians of 1915. The nations responsible for various processes and procedures sought to respond to these human rights abuses in order to move on from their pasts.