Quest for Justice and a Homeland

On the 26th of February 1919, the Armenian Delegation presented to the Paris Peace Conference a Memorandum. This document was the basis of the Armenian claim for freedom.

The Armenians called for a homeland stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the high mountains beyond Mount Ararat on the borders of Georgia and Azerbaijan.

Basing their claims on the suffering under the Ottoman empire and the Turkish inheritors of that empire, detailed extensively in the document, the Armenian people claimed a moral right to independence.

Just as Germany would be called upon by the great powers to compensate the countries they devastated with the war of aggression. Turkey needed to be held to similar account for the attempted genocide of the Armenian people.

Their full claim is available here for you to read and download.