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What would you do if 75% of your country's people were massacred? What if the plan was the extermination of your people?
I address this question to each person in the world deniying the Armenian genocide or saying 'It happened long time ago'. Would you say the same if these 75% were the people of your own country not of Armenia? Would you forget or forgive? Would you stay still? Would you deny?
Or would you take action, raise awareness, speak up, ask for justice and a fair trial?
The first Genocide of the 20th century: "Armenian communities would vanish from the face of the earth; neither women nor children would be speared. Whatever crimes the most perverted instincts of the human mind can devise and whatever refinements of the persecution and injustice the most abase imagination can conceive became the daily fortune of these devoted people. The whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this one."
Therefore I decided to raise awareness about the Armenian Genocide at least among my friends and family.
A major obstacle for wider recognition of the genocide in the world is the position of Turkey that denies the Armenian genocide although it is documented.
Here is a summary of the Armenian Genocide Recognition around the world:
Barack Obama's position
We recall, Barak Obama`s speech in 2006: “[…] the Armenian Genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a w...idely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence. […] The facts are undeniable. […] as President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide.”
He has since backed off of those statements, stating only that his opinion hasn't changed and refusing to use the word genocide, even in his statement issued today, 24 April 2012.
Here is the map showing historic Armenia and current one where Turkey has taken its lands including Ararat mount:
Turks actions on Armenian people in 1915:
Once William Saroyan said:
"I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia. See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia"
People around the world should understand that the Armenian Genocide is not an event belonging to our history. It is part of our lives. If the Armenian Genocide won't be recognized what would then stop murderers repeating such an event? They would think that they can do a new Genocide and it will then be forgotten like the Armenian one. Turks killed 1.5 Million for the only reason that they were Armenians. Yes it is Genocide.
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What would you do if 75% of your country's people were massacred? What if the plan was the extermination of your people?
I address this question to each person in the world deniying the Armenian genocide or saying 'It happened long time ago'. Would you say the same if these 75% were the people of your own country not of Armenia? Would you forget or forgive? Would you stay still? Would you deny?
Or would you take action, raise awareness, speak up, ask for justice and a fair trial?
1.5 million Armenians were massacred by Turkey, 24 April 1915
The first Genocide of the 20th century: "Armenian communities would vanish from the face of the earth; neither women nor children would be speared. Whatever crimes the most perverted instincts of the human mind can devise and whatever refinements of the persecution and injustice the most abase imagination can conceive became the daily fortune of these devoted people. The whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this one."
Therefore I decided to raise awareness about the Armenian Genocide at least among my friends and family.
A major obstacle for wider recognition of the genocide in the world is the position of Turkey that denies the Armenian genocide although it is documented.
Here is a summary of the Armenian Genocide Recognition around the world:
We recall, Barak Obama`s speech in 2006: “[…] the Armenian Genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a w...idely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence. […] The facts are undeniable. […] as President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide.”
He has since backed off of those statements, stating only that his opinion hasn't changed and refusing to use the word genocide, even in his statement issued today, 24 April 2012.
Here is the map showing historic Armenia and current one where Turkey has taken its lands including Ararat mount:
Turks actions on Armenian people in 1915:
- Turks deported Armenians: "take them like sheep to the desert and let them die of thirst and hunger themselves"
- Turks murdered Armenian men, women, children, doctors and government officials then hung them or fed them to the dogs
- Turks tortured and degraded Armenian women. They were beaten, raped, starved, and murdered
- The corpses of those murdered Armenians were observed to be floating down the Rivers. Most often the male corpses were hideously mutated in the sense that their sexual organs had been excised and the females were had usually been ripped open
- Turks burned Armenian schools with children inside and threw the babies into the lakes
- Turks threw the Armenians into the river and watched them drown to death, and the ones that could swim were shot as they struggled in the water
- Some Armenians had to bury their own families in the ground to save them from the Turkish torture
- Turks massacred the Armenians from 1915 to 1923. The starting date of the genocide is conventionally held to be April 24, 1915, the day when Ottoman authorities arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople.
Once William Saroyan said:
"I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia. See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia"
People around the world should understand that the Armenian Genocide is not an event belonging to our history. It is part of our lives. If the Armenian Genocide won't be recognized what would then stop murderers repeating such an event? They would think that they can do a new Genocide and it will then be forgotten like the Armenian one. Turks killed 1.5 Million for the only reason that they were Armenians. Yes it is Genocide.
To have the genocide denied is to die twice.
Recognize the Armenian Genocide!
Proud to be Armenian.
Here is a list of documents showing some facts about the Armenian Genocide along with my references:
