Letters to the Editor: Ireland must recognise Armenian genocide

The Armenian genocide began in 1915 during the First World War causing the deaths of more than 1.5m Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian people

People hold portraits of Armenian intellectuals — who were detained and deported in 1915 — during a rally in Istanbul in 2018, held to commemorate the 103nd anniversary of the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. Picture: Bulent Kilic/AFP via Getty Images

Genocide is the most serious crime against humanity. The Holocaust caused the deaths of 6m people.

The UN was founded to prevent such crimes against humanity and the Genocide Convention was passed in 1948 to ensure the words ‘never again’ actually meant what they said.