The Seminar in 2008 / "The Genocide in the Turkish Occupied north of Cyprus."

Theatro Technis in association with the Lobby for Cyprus - www.lobbyforcyprus.org

The presentation will include a critique of the Annan Plan, written within the context of a genocide debate and will apply the concepts and definitions of Lemkin, who first used the word genocide, and the UN 1948 Genocide Convention to the polices and practices that Greek Cyprios have been subjected to in Occupied Cyprus.

Des Fernandes is the author of "the Armenian, Assyrian, Greek, Kurdish and Greek Cypriot Genocides, and the Politics of Denialism" (Apec, Stockholm, 2008), "Colonial Genocides in Turkey, Kenya and Goa" (Apec, Stockholm (forthcoming) and "the Kurdish and Armenian Genocides: from Censorship and Denial to Recognition" (Apec, Stockhom 2007).

Des was formerly a senior lecturer in Human Geography and "the Geography of Genocide" at De Montfort University, Bedford. He has written exclusively on the subject of genocide and articles have appeared in journals that include "Genocide Studies and Prevention" (the Journal of the International Association of Genocide Scholars), Armenian Forum" and "Variant: Cross Currents in Culture."

(Permission was not granted to videotape the 2008 Seminar)