31214 - President Wilson as Righteous of Western Armenia

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Vicky Baklessi

Western Armenia recognized officially with a new presidential decree President of America Woodrow Wilson (1856-1921) as Righteous. This decision derives as a continuation of the recognition of Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959). President Wilson was one of the founders of the League of Nations and for this dynamic reason was he honored in 1919 with the Peace Nobel Prize. As a lawyer he covered a range on a global level and for this reason the Great Powers of Europe had assigned to him the continuation of Sevres Treaty of 1920 and within the framework of his 14 points to draw the boundaries between Turkey and Armenia. In this sense he had a direct involvement to the evolution of the Armenian entity. If fact he showed respect to her dead people and maintained with tooth and claw Armenian regions even though due to the genocide there were no Armenian people. Namely he thought of Armenia as a cultural totality which belongs to Mankind and didn’t reduce, as many would have done, the residential area of the living. So he was Righteous and for this characteristic it was acceptable also by the Great Power, since they considered that their boundaries were correct on an international level. The recognition as Righteous by Western Armenia comes to conclude a work that protected until the end the innocents even after the genocide they had been submitted to by the turkish barbarity.