Anniversary of a Forgotten Genocide
Today marks the anniversary of the forgotten genocide; on April 24, 1915 Turkish soldiers began a campaign of extermination against the Christian Armenian people who inhabited Ottoman controlled land in the Caucuses. This shameful slaughter of approximately 1.5 million people was carried out with little protest from the West (this would embolden Adolf Hitler to execute his ``final solution`` 20 some-odd years later) and stopped only because the Ottoman state collapsed at the end of the ``War to end all Wars``.
The horror of this attempted genocide must never be forgotten, and should act as a warning to those who would dismiss the threats made against Israel and the Jewish people; an Islamic state has attempted this kind of thing before.
Let us not allow the Armenian deaths be in vain! We must remember them, pray for them, and keep them in our consciousness, lest this dreadful act of hatred be repeated!
The horror of this attempted genocide must never be forgotten, and should act as a warning to those who would dismiss the threats made against Israel and the Jewish people; an Islamic state has attempted this kind of thing before.
Let us not allow the Armenian deaths be in vain! We must remember them, pray for them, and keep them in our consciousness, lest this dreadful act of hatred be repeated!
posted by Timothy Birdnow | 4:26 PM
4 Comments:
May they rest in peace ... Thank you for your support .
Regards.
Amen, Maral!
Thanks for the visit!
As an honorary -- as opposed to ornery -- Armenian, I sometimes facetiously sign my name as "Michael Morrisian."
I have been published in Ararat magazine.
I was a major booster of Armenian composer Ara Sevanian, a brilliant musician, and was able, in fact, to introduce his music to two different orchestras.
You can understand, then, how gratified I am at your article.
Armenians, and would-be Armenians, admirers such as I, will always remember the Turkish murders, the first mass genocide of the 20th Century, but by no means the last.
Official Turkey wants it forgotten, but the conscience of the world needs to be reminded, not only on the anniversary, but constantly.
Thank you again, Tim.
Don't forget the Pontic Greeks who were massacred by the thousands and driven out of Anatolia (modern Turkey)in the 1920s by the Turks.
They had lived there for 3,000 years, but when they were forced to leave, no one remembered them, either.
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