Posted on 01/26/2005 6:57:58 PM PST by SJackson
RA foreign minister said in his speech at the 28th session of the UN General Assembly that Hitler bound the Jews with the Armenians forever. The 28th session was dedicated to 60th anniversary of liberating the prisoners of Auswenzin concentration camp.
"Who remembers the annihilation of Armenians," Hitler said few days before entering Poland. The cynical statement made by Hitler about the Armenians is properly represented at the Holocaust Museum in Washington," Oskanian said. "After Auswenzin we all are Jews, gypsies, we all are banished and hated by someone, somewhere. After Auswenzin a human being’s consciousness can’t remain the same."
"These notorious places have their names for the victims of 15 genocides that took place in the 20th century. For Armenians this place is Der Zor desert, for the Cambodians such a place is the Valley of Massacres, while for the children of the 21st century Darfur is such a place. While, the Jews, the Polish and all our generation that grew up after the World War II remembers Auswenzin."
"On behalf of the Armenian people and its government, and as an descendent of the Genocide survivors, I think that it is my imperative to be here today and join the survivors and participate in this arrangement of commemoration," Vartan Oskanian said in his speech on January 24.
Well said.
Not much of an article, but worth remembering that not only the Genocide Treaty (unenforced :<( ) as well as the word genocide owe their origin to Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew who was inspired by the horrors of the Armenian Genocide.
Yet, Turkey is still blatantly refusing to acknowledge the genocide. And both, government and the majority of the population, agree on this subject. Very disturbing.
it would have been no different in Germany if it had won the war...
Turkey was a killing machine on a par with hitler's Germany and stalin's USSR.
That's quite true.
Hey, btw, whatever happened to the other thread with the Polish dude Matthew Paul? Why did it get pulled? It seems that I missed a good amount of posts...
I have no idea.
Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks were eliminated because they were "infidels". It is a good thing that forums like Free Republic exist where this heinous crime is remembered. The Mohammedan barbarians can't get away with it.
A good reminder of other 20th century genocides.
And the World shrugs
bttt
BTTT
Did he also mention that Armenians took an active part on the side of the Nazis during the Holocaust and joined their ranks to assist in the killing of the Jews? Guess not.
Oh and do you see the Revolutionary War as a massacre of British colonists then? Please try to learn a little bit more about history from real history books, not wartime propaganda.
What's really worrying is that such fiction can be made to be percieved as a historical fact by such a large group of reasonably well educated and prosperous people.
I actually pity the Armenians, a nation with a history dating back thousands of years, for not being able to find anything to establish a national identity foo themselves other than this ridiculous make-believe genocide which is supposed to have taken place less than a century ago.
This is one of the saddest unresolved isues in the world: the Armenian massacre. Turkey to this day refuses to take responsibililty for this.
That's History a la Carte. The same as Kurds who present themselves as victims of Turkish persecution yet conveniently forget their own role in Armenian genocide.
Armenian support to the Nazis is interesting subject because it is swept uder the rug and forgotten.
Never forget? Yeah, right.
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