Definately NOT GUILTY!The denial isn’t just on the part of Turkey. It’s a typical case of Muslims slaughtering Christians which is still going on in the world today. Saying anything less is just a way of allowing it to continue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTnCaW-Uo_s
1919 video about this.
My grandmother came to the US from Turkey.
She traveled with an Armenian woman who was coming here also. The woman told her she saw people impaled on sticks. Armenians were crammed into rail cars and sent out into the desert where they were put out of the cars and the trains left them there.
Greeks (like us) and Armenians were shoved out of the country and forced to leave with nothing... and some, like the Armenians, were murdered outright.
It was much worse for the Armenians.
THEY were all wealthy. They had gold, property, etc. They were professors, attorneys, merchants... that’s why the Turks were not satisfied to just deport them.
My grandmother said SOME Turks were humane. They gave the Greeks bread and water on their forced march to the boats. Sometimes they found coins in the bread... it was the exception and not the rule, but it is to the Turk’s credit that some of them felt guilty about what was going on.
that cant be? only Hitler committed genocide in the 20th century...and only to Jewish folk....
and who the heck are the:
Armenians 1.500,000
Pol Pot’s Cambodians 2,000,000
Stalin’s Forced Starvation of the Ukraine(32-33)7,000,000
Mao’s China (58-62)45,000,000 (WOW those Commies)
Castro’s Cuba.... 10s of thousands by firing squad alone
seems only certain groups can claim victimhood....or at least the only ones the news media care about.
In October, 1980, I was at a record collectors’ swap meet in Hollywood when I heard a loud “poof.” I thought it was in the building, but afterwards, I learned that it was a bomb that had detonated a couple blocks away.
A group calling itself “Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide” or something like that, had bombed a camera shop owned by an American of Turkish decent. The only casualty was an English tourist who was hit with shrapnel while driving by. This was the closest I had ever come to a terrorist attack.
The local contingent in my town wants us to lower U. S. Flags and raise the Armenian flag on one day per year in observance of this.
I detest what took place with the holocaust also, but I don’t wish to lower our flags and raise Jewish flag of sorts once per year.
I am sorry for whatever took place in their old homeland. It grates me when folks come here and try to get our nation to adopt their former nation’s angst/agenda.
Every year this issue is raised by the locals and they demand some form of recognition.
If this is reasoned, then I suppose we should adopt every single issue that people of different nations have around the world, and designate a day in remembrance. That should leave about one weekend a year for purely American agenda remembrances.
Ah, no thanks...
Definately NOT GUILTY!Thank you for your posts, george76 and MNDude. This piqued my interest as I was under the vague impression that this atrocity was uncontested. I did not know that it was still a plaything for corrupt politicians.
I just finished watching the whole of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=548lD5SvERk
Every moment of it was fascinating.
Where is Serdar Argic when you need him?
BFL