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DOUGHTY STREET CHAMBERS PUBLISHED A LEGAL OPINION BY GEOFFREY ROBERTSON ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Today, the law firm Doughty Street Chambers published a legal opinion by Geoffrey Robertson, QC, regarding the UK Government's long established view that there is insufficient evidence to consider the events of 1915 as genocide. Based on a thorough investigation of the written advice provided by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office...

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DOUGHTY STREET CHAMBERS PUBLISHED A LEGAL OPINION BY GEOFFREY ROBERTSON ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE