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TURKEY SPENDS MILLIONS TO COVER UP ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
By David Holthouse
EuropeNews
June 3 2008
Denmark
Early this year, the Toronto District School Board voted to require
all public high school students in Canada's largest city to complete a
new course titled "Genocide: Historical and Contemporary Implications."
It includes a unit on the Armenian genocide, in which more than a
million Armenians perished in a methodical and premeditated scheme
of annihilation orchestrated by the rulers of Turkey during and just
after World War I.
The school board members each soon received a letter from Guenter
Lewy, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of
Massachusetts, rebuking them for classifying the Armenian genocide in
the same category as the Holocaust. "The tragic fate of the Armenian
community during World War I," Lewy wrote, is best understood as "a
badly mismanaged war-time security measure," rather than a carefully
plotted genocide.
Lewy is one of the most active members of a network of American
scholars, influence peddlers and website operators, financed by
hundreds of thousands of dollars each year from the government of
Turkey, who promote the denial of the Armenian genocide -- a network
so influential that it was able last fall to defy both historical
truth and enormous political pressure to convince America's lawmakers
and even its president to reverse long-held policy positions.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
By David Holthouse
EuropeNews
June 3 2008
Denmark
Early this year, the Toronto District School Board voted to require
all public high school students in Canada's largest city to complete a
new course titled "Genocide: Historical and Contemporary Implications."
It includes a unit on the Armenian genocide, in which more than a
million Armenians perished in a methodical and premeditated scheme
of annihilation orchestrated by the rulers of Turkey during and just
after World War I.
The school board members each soon received a letter from Guenter
Lewy, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of
Massachusetts, rebuking them for classifying the Armenian genocide in
the same category as the Holocaust. "The tragic fate of the Armenian
community during World War I," Lewy wrote, is best understood as "a
badly mismanaged war-time security measure," rather than a carefully
plotted genocide.
Lewy is one of the most active members of a network of American
scholars, influence peddlers and website operators, financed by
hundreds of thousands of dollars each year from the government of
Turkey, who promote the denial of the Armenian genocide -- a network
so influential that it was able last fall to defy both historical
truth and enormous political pressure to convince America's lawmakers
and even its president to reverse long-held policy positions.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress