VIEW: Turkey, Armenia, and the burden of memory

Charles Tannock -- chairman of the European Parliament’s Human Rights Committee

All wars end, eventually. But memories of atrocity never seem to fade, as the anti-Japanese riots now taking place in China remind us. The 90th anniversary of the Armenian massacres of 1915, ordered by the ruling Young Turks of the Ottoman Empire and carried out by the Kurds, is another wound that will not heal, but one that must be treated if Turkey’s progress toward European Union membership is to proceed smoothly.
[...]
There is only one way forward for Turkey, Armenia, and the region. The future will begin only when Turkey — like Germany in the past and Serbia and Croatia now — repudiates its policy of denial and faces up to its terrible crimes of 1915. Only then can the past truly be past.

Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears on:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_20-5-2005_pg3_4
Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...].The bold emphasis is mine.