Talk:Norman Stone

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No mention of the BHHRG? 86.136.88.187 00:42, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inaccurate

"He has been much criticized for his public assurances during 2004 (notably in The Spectator and The Times Literary Supplement) that the Armenian genocide never occurred."

He made no such 'assurances' in either publication during his comments regarding flaws in evidence used in a book that was under review.

Stone has never denied that vast numbers of Armenians were slaughtered during forced deportations from Turkey in 1915; he does not even dispute the possibility that there was genocidal intent. What he does dispute is that there is unequivocal evidence of such intent, and in the absence of a smoking gun, prefers to stick to "massacres". http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/features/article2829372.ece

Indeed, Stone's comments in The Times Literary Supplement were in the feedback section of historian Andrew Mango's own review which itself made the exact same point.

The article can certainly reflect Stone's position, but should do so clinically. The current line presents as an appeal to ridicule.

Either post the 'assurances' or amend it.