William Schabas: "There is no doubt that the term ‘genocide’ may be applied to events that occurred long before the word was actually invented"

Nvard Chalikyan

On the usage of the legal term ‘genocide’ and on other legal issues related to the Armenian Genocide, Panorama.am has asked the opinion of William Schabas, renowned expert on international law and the law of genocide. Schabas is a professor of international law at Middlesex University in London and the author of Genocide in International Law.