In the French Armenian magazine France-Arménie, Marc Knobel, President of the J’accuse association and researcher at the CRIF, explains that “the recognition of the Armenian genocide is non negotiable” and goes on to add that “it is essential to recognize the sufferings of a whole people”, and that this genocide “challenges us and is an unspeakable void”. In Les Nouvelles d’Arménie (September 2005), Marc Knobel referred to the recent sentencing of the Quid encyclopedia, which in 2001, in the chapter on “the extermination camps” and the paragraph dedicated to the Auschwitz Birkenau camp, referred to the odious negationist estimate of Robert Faurisson as to the number of victims at Auschwitz. “150,000 dead in all (of whom some 100,000 Jews, most of whom died of typhus)”. Lastly, on July 6 of this year, the Quid Encyclopedia was sentenced for having “trivialized” the Armenian genocide. Marc Knobel reckons that with these sentences “we are particularly pleased with the decisions taken by the courts. Our determination proves if necessary that we must not retreat, any more than we cannot tolerate our memory being sullied and vilified. The assassins of memory, whether they are few or supported by a State, must be resisted with the determination of the Righteous and reason. »
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