Atrocities, real and imagined

The Porterville Recorder ^ | May 29, 2015 | Raoul Lowery Contreras

[artichokegrower]

Many in the Western Hemisphere were joyous when a Jesuit priest from Argentina was elected Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. When he announced in January 2015 that the Church would make Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra of California missionary fame a saint, many Catholics were delighted.

[artichokegrower]

There on March 31st, 1918, a combination of Armenian radicals called “Dashnaks” combined with Armenian and Russian Communists to “cleanse” Jews and Azeris from the province of Guba that had been under Russian governance since the early 1800s. This atrocity’s goal was to create an Armenian communist republic.

What a messed up part of the world. Hard to pick the good guys from the bad guys