Armenian refugees, 1915

Post-Morsi Egypt might become the first Muslim Country to recognize the Metz Yeghern, the extermination of the Armenians ordered by the government of the Young Turks in 1915. The proposal was put forward by Egyptian lawyer Muhammad Saad Khairallah, director of the Institute of the People's Front in Egypt, who obtained to be heard by the Cairo Tribunal on next 5 November. 
The announcement was issued during a tv programme with the particilation of the professor of International Law of the Cairo university Mr. Ayman Salama. The latter reminded millions of viewers that in 1919 there was a trial against the culprits of the Armenian Genocide, which ended with 20 guilt verdicts, 3 of which were death penalties. Already in 1915 Russia, England and France had issued a common declaration stating that they would consider the massacres as "crimes against humanity and civilization".