Between 1915 and 1922 the Ottoman empire committed genocide against its Armenian population, which has often been described in the literature as the forgotten genocide. Murders and deportations of Armenians were accompanied by expropriation of practically all their belongings and by the destruction of the cultural heritage of historic Armenia. The aim of this master's thesis is to present the main legal international reparation mechanisms, available in cases such as the Armenian genocide, including an analysis of possible application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide as well as the Treaty of Sèvres. The thesis addresses consequences of damages from the fatalities during the Armenian genocide, for the property damage and for the loss of Armenian land, but also an overview of procedures that have so far been applied for the purpose of making reparations in the case of the Armenian genocide. The master’s thesis thus deals with the hypothesis that international law does not provide effective reparation mechanisms for cases such as the Armenian genocide, where the aggravating circumstances are the passage of time since the genocide and deficiency of legal instruments of the period.
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