The legislative body of an important Western country has passed a resolution recognizing for the first time that Turks committed genocide against Armenians. There is a strong chance this will not stop there. It could be said that the Armenians are at last winning their cases. One of the reasons for this situation arising is that almost all those who researched the Armenian incidents and wrote them up are historians.
Genocide is a category of crime.
Yet, most historians know nothing of the law. A significant proportion of them are inclined to classify any incident in which civilians died as genocide. The books they wrote in the 1980s and 1990s have convinced the Western public that the Armenians were victims of genocide. In order for Western countries not to go act in accordance with the Armenians' wishes they have to have good reasons for maintaining relations with us and we have to constantly threaten them with severing these relations. These efforts began to prove inadequate in countries where during election periods the Armenian vote is crucial.