[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...while many historians call it a genocide, there are some who disagree....

Yeah, murdering Turks.

[marsh_of_mists]

It's hard to believe there is anyone who'd quibble that a term generally used to describe the massacre of a million people is "too harsh", let alone file a lawsuit about it.

Also, I note the article saves the fact that the Turks killed the Armenians until the second paragraph. In the first paragraph it just mentions "the deaths of at least 1 million Armenians in Turkey". By war? Plague? Famine? What?

[sgtyork]

This suit should be put on hold until all American high school students know SOMETHING about AMERICAN history.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, who is fighting the suit on behalf of the Department of Education, filed a motion Friday to have the case dismissed. His lawyers argue that the First Amendment cannot be applied to statements by the government, including curriculum guidelines.

Huh? The plaintiff is claiming a right to free speech. The Department of Education wants to suppress it. The government wants to say the government does not have a right to free speech so therefore the government has the sole right to dictate dogma? I must be living in Animal Farm. The pigs just posted another notice in the All Gay Every Day Boston Globe. The entire article is about genocide and genocide denial. Not one word that Islamic Turks murdered 1,000,000 or so Christian Armenians. Is there a word for theocide?

[oilfieldtrash]

Pretty interesting. I hope the Armenians succeed in telling the truth.The US government has always pandered to the turks for fear that islamists will take hold, which happened anyway.

I liked Turkey until I went to Cyprus and saw first hand Famagusta, Nicosia and the green line. All orthodox cathedrals in Famagusta, which was the show case of Cyprus were defaced and converted to mosques. All priceless religious relics were destroyed or sold to the highest bidder not to mention the 6000 Greek Cypriots which disappeared unaccounted for.

A vacation to Turkey. No thanks. Anatalya where most of the vacation areas were built by the Greeks who were overrun in 1917(Onassis was one) and ethnically cleansed.

[brothers4thID]

Does calling mass murder anything other than genocide make it that much less offensive?

[Publius6961]

OK then, if it was a "civil war" how many Turks died in it?

No one wants to deal with that question; Certainly not the Turks.

[inquest]

The Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School teacher and his student believe that when Massachusetts high school students learn about the deaths of at least 1 million Armenians in Turkey during the early part of the 20th century, they should be taught that, while many historians call it a genocide, there are some who disagree.

"TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!!!"

(now there's a phrase that sounds awfully familiar for some reason...)