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**Hellektor** · 05-03-2008, 04:01 PM

There were no Malta trials

Originally posted by Kevin_B View Post

Would you explian Malta trials and why they found the Turks not guilty!

There were no Malta trials. It's yet another Turkish fabrication.

However, there were trials in occupied Constantinople in 1919 where the chief culprits of the Armenian Genocide were condemned to death by the Ottoman court. The court records are among the most solid and irrefutable proofs of the Armenian Genocide.

Of course the monsters had already escaped with German help and would be put out of their misery by Armenian heroes, but the existence of these trials confirms that Turkey was ironically the first country that recognized the fact of the extermination of the Armenians.

**Crimson Glow** · 05-04-2008, 12:20 AM

Re: Malta trials?

The following is a response I wrote to a Turk (using the typical "genocide denial 101" copy/paste technique) who signed up on the System of a Down fan site just to say the genocide didn't happen.

Originally posted by cho wrote:

FACT #5: The British convened the Malta Tribunals to try Ottoman officials for crimes against Armenians. All of the accused were acquitted.

I can�t believe people still try to use this non-existent tribunal as evidence. The �release� of these �suspects� was merely an exchange of prisoners between the British and the Turks neatly offered as an �exhaustive, extensive investigation that found no evidence�. A regretful British Foreign Affairs Minister Lord Curzon explains when he wrote, "The less we say about these people [the Turks detained at Malta] the better�I had to explain why we released the Turkish deportees from Malta skating over thin ice as quickly as I could. There would have been a row I think...The staunch belief among members [of Parliament is] that one British prisoner is worth a shipload of Turks, and so the exchange was excused" (British Foreign Office Archives, FO 371/7882/E4425, folio 182). Had the actually findings of even the SINGLE, tiny inquiry been taken into consideration, this evidence alone would have been damning to the suspects, as British ambassador Aukland Geddes stated on June 1, 1921 that the U.S. archives already contained "a large number of documents on Armenian deportations and massacres" (British Foreign Office Archives, FO 371/6503/E6311, folio 34). The whole thing was a sham.

**Kevin_B** · 05-04-2008, 06:03 PM

Re: Malta trials?

Originally posted by Crimson Glow View Post

The following is a response I wrote to a Turk (using the typical "genocide denial 101" copy/paste technique) who signed up on the System of a Down fan site just to say the genocide didn't happen.

Could you show me this fan site I love "system of a down"!