(Thanks for the reminder RHT) Posted by Jack
This is the infamous 102nd anniversary of the Armenian genocide, which many in Turkey deny even took place, yet it was Turkish people who were instrumental in its completion. This national denial ranks right up there with holocaust deniers. it’s sick and repugnant to think people could behave this way in the 1900’s.
What exactly was the Armenian genocide? The Armenian Genocide occurred between 1915 and 1917 and it was the Ottoman (Muslim) government’s systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians, mostly Christian citizens within the Ottoman Empire and its successor state, the Republic of Turkey.
The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders from Constantinople to the region of Ankara, the majority of whom were eventually murdered. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre.[15][16][17]
In summer 1915, during the massacres of the Armenian population in Mush, the city was set on fire by the Turkish army: thousands of Armenians were burnt alive in their houses. According to the note left by Bodil Biørn on the back of the photo, the teacher Margaret and her children were also burnt alive. A witness of the Turkish crimes, Sister Biørn suffered intense anguish losing all the children of her orphanage in one day, to whom she had gave her maternal love and care over years. The screams and calls of help of the helpless children were embedded in the memory of Bodil Biørn. – See more at: http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/15.04.2015-100photos.php#sthash.40BSbGIK.dpuf
Other indigenous and Christian ethnic groups such as the Assyrians and the Ottoman Greeks were similarly targeted for extermination by the Ottoman government in the Assyrian genocide and the Greek genocide, and their treatment is considered by some historians to be part of the same genocidal policy.[18][19] Most Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide.
It was not enough they had to engage in ethnic cleansing, these barbaric Muslims fanatics seemed to take great pleasure in raping and torturing their helpless victims. I know, I have viewed the pictures and have read the accounts. It was every bit as brutal and in some cases worse, than what the Nazi’s did to the Jews. Turkey now trivializes what happened and to this day there has been little accountability. Would today’s Muslim fanatics behave any better? By all accounts, the answer is no. This is why I never want to see another Muslim theocracy, the human rights abuses go hand in hand with Muslim governments.
The Armenian day of remembrance (1.5 million) always occurs on the date the intellectuals were rounded up, April 24th, by our calendar.
This year the Armenian commemoration occurs simultaneously with the Jewish Holocaust anniversary, which is determined by the Jewish calendar and doesn’t always fall on the same day.
As we ponder the evil of the Armenian Holocaust (WWI) lets us remember also the six million Jews slaughtered in the WWII Holocaust. Add to this travesty another five million slaughtered by the Nazis in addition to war dead: political enemies, Christians, homosexuals, handicapped, and prisoners of war.
Radical Muslims and the Nazi’s agreed about eliminating the Jews and worked together to that end. I’ve often wondered what would have happened if the Allies had not defeated the Nazi’s. Who would come out on top when the Nazi’s and the Islamists found themselves at loggerheads?
Remembering “so we never again allow such evil” is important…but it doesn’t seem to prompt awareness of danger signs and conditions that lead to mass slaughter. Even when it does, the people today seem to lack the will to act decisively and follow through to defeat such monsters. Look at all the ground we’ve lost in the last eight years and look at the result…various peoples targeted for mass slaughter by Muslim terrorists: Christians, Turkmen, Shabaks, Yazidi, Sabaeans, Kaka’e, Faili Kurds, and Arab Shi’ite communities. In February 2015 the Jerusalem Post reported that at least 11,602 civilians were killed and another 21,766 were wounded in what they describe as a “genocide of minorities in Iraq.” That’s just Iraq…what about Syria, Libya, Egypt?
And why wasn’t the American press hammering President Obama over the course of eight years while his policies created conditions for this to happen?
The genocide is still going on
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/04/25/turkey-bombs-u-s-supported-kurds-in-syria-at-least-18-killed/
and will continue as Erdogan continues his march toward an islamic state.
A most eloquent post.
https://borepatch.blogspot.com/2017/04/never-forget-brigid-guest-post.html