The World - News from Aug. 21, 1985
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The British author of a U.N. report on genocide defended the document against critics who want to delete a reference to Turkish massacres of Armenians during World War I. Human rights expert Ben Whitaker told a U.N. subcommission on human rights meeting in Geneva, “We are all anxious to close this chapter, but it must be closed with honor. . . .” A Turkish representative told the subcommission earlier that there were wartime “excesses” against the Armenians, but he denied that this constituted genocide.
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