In 2008, Australia’s then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologized to his country’s Aborigines, while Queen Elizabeth II offered a moving gesture of contrition in Ireland a few months ago. And now, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on a recent visit to the Caucasus, reiterated his advice to the Turks to “repent” for the massacres of Armenians committed by the decaying Ottoman regime in 1915.
发自巴黎——近年突然频繁出现的国家级忏悔行动如今又登上了新闻栏。2008年，时任澳洲总理的陆克文代表国家向土著原居民道歉。几个月前英女王伊丽莎白二世也在访问爱尔兰时（对两国历史冲突所造成的伤害）展现出了感人的抱歉姿态。而法国总统萨科齐最近在访问高加索地区时则重申土耳其应当对1915年没落的奥斯曼帝国对亚美尼亚人进行的大屠杀“表示忏悔”。