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in the following investigation, which will show how Swedish economic interests affected apotential Swedish meddling or intervention in the Armenian question.The sociologist and genocide scholar Vahakn N. Dadrian points out that genocide deniersabuse our sense of fair play and strive for hearing out both parties before making a judgment.Here, the perpetrator, by carefully placed excuses and evasive arguments, rather tries to cover upthe relevant facts in the matter than exposing them. Yet another factor is that the denier does notrequire any proof, but only demands for revision of the history. Therefore, the burden ofpresenting evidence falls upon the victim. 42 Israel Charny identifies the five characteristics of thedenial of genocide as follows:1. Innocence and Self-Righteousness: willingness to ascertain the truth and claimingthat no human being could be so evil for committing the horrors of the genocide.2. Science in the Service of Confusion: the search for the ultimate proof. Claiming thatthe research at hand is not enough for establishing the accusation of genocide, thusobfuscating already well-known facts.3. Practicality, Pragmatism and Realpolitik: Let’s forget the past and move on.Acknowledging the past won’t bring back the dead. This will only hurt the currentpolitical, military and economic relations.4. Distorted Linkages and Temporal Confusions: Creation of further confusion byreferring to misplaced temporal events in the present for explaining certain actions inthe past.5. Indirection, Definitionalism, and Reversal: Avoiding essential issues, by refusal ofreplying, or referring to irrelevant issues. Definitionalism refers to engagement indiscussion of the definition of genocide, much like “the family of a murdered personhaving to listen to lawyers argue about whether the victim’s death can be proven.”And finally, the ultimate measure is to reverse the entire event, claiming theperpetrators to be the victims while victims are the real aggressors. 43History revisionism is a well known tool in denying history. Profanation of the academic valueswhen asserting the need of further scientific research is one of the most frequent used means inthe process of denial:The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, itshistory. Then you have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a newhistory. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. 4442 Dadrian, 1999, p. 1-2; Also see Charny, 2000, p. 160; Shermer and Grobman, 2000, p. 10-15.43 Charny, 2000, p. 160. Also see Alvarez, 2001, p. 114-129; Jones, 2006, p. 352-354; Shaw, 2003, p. 184-185;Shermer and Grobman, 2000, p. 99-119.44 Bevan, 2006, p. 25.13