31118 - Wilson’s delimitation
N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Vicky Baklessi
The delimitation of the American President as a consequence of the Sevres Treaty of 1920 and its 14 points, places a problem and a questioning which concerns the Rights of Humanity. More specifically after the Sevres Treaty the Great Powers asked from President Wilson who had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919 due to the intense support for the League of Nations which will lead thereafter to the United Nations in 1946 to draw the boarders between Turkey and Armenia. This problem, if we don’t integrate it in the framework of the genocide of the Armenians, it couldn’t be an exercise of smart education since often in the past and in the future of the era, we had similar cases for the boarders of two countries after a change of phase. The innovation of Woodrow Wilson derives from the fact that he didn’t mark the delimitation examining only where and who were alive, because he knew that he wouldn’t be Righteous, since there had been a genocide. So Wilson showed respect to the Armenian civilization as a member of Mankind and examined what was proof of evidence for the existence of this indigenous people. In other words he showed respect to the Rights which would become reality only in 2007 on an official level and in the United Nations. What is most impressive for us is that he respected the first article of the Rights of Humanity, since he thought along with the living, also the dead of the genocide as innocent victims and the unborn as the next innocents who he had to protect with a fair delimitation. And it is exactly this that he did. With this notion he is of course worthy and Righteous. Since he helped Humanity itself, as Lemkin did later on.