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    WE DEAL WITH NATION HAVING NO QUALMS IN KILLING CITIZENS: GIBRAHAYER

    news.am
    Nov 19 2009
    Armenia

    Armenia-Turkey Protocols raised "the issue of identity and the
    means of identifying one s self in society as an individual and as
    a group", reads the article by Jean Ipdjian published in Gibrahayer
    magazine. NEWS.am posts the passages from the article.

    "It has always been hard for Armenians in the Diaspora to keep their
    national identity while at the same time being able to identify
    themselves as citizens and as part of the countries, they happen to
    live in.

    It has always been the endeavour of Armenian individuals and
    Organizations to create such conditions that will help keep their
    Armenianism . The object of not being swept by the currents of
    assimilation which are so strong specially in friendlier societies,
    where the physical threats to their wellbeing is less and where there
    are no easily definable social and religious boundaries between them
    and the local population.

    The Diaspora, which is mostly a direct result of the persecutions of
    Armenians in the late 19th century Ottoman Empire and more so of the
    Genocide of more than a million Armenians living in their homeland
    in Ancient Armenia, present day Eastern Turkey and also Istanbul and
    other cities, has used this fact as a means of identification. We
    are children of the Genocide and it is practically impossible to find
    a family or individual whose ancestors have not been victims of the
    Genocide in one way or the other.

    Therefore, it is inconceivable for us, the children of the Genocide
    to accept any form of denial or questioning of the existence of the
    Genocide, because in that way we will be actually denying ourselves and
    robbing ourselves from our own identity. This mean of identification
    is so strong that it was only recently that compatriotic organizations
    were dissolved in our communities. And this fact is one of the core
    problems that the Protocols have created.

    It is, to say the least, extreme naivety to believe that this wound in
    our history can heal with unilateral acts of forgiveness and forward
    looking on our part. The key, which will untangle this quagmire of
    existence, which is the Diaspora, is firmly in Turkey s hands. We
    can live with the consequences of the Genocide and the heirs of the
    organizers and executers of the Genocide, provided that they stop
    their denial, provided that they accept it. Only then can the real
    healing process start.

    And if we look at the chain of events, we will see that unless
    our resolve in standing up for and defending our National issues
    is unwavering and steadfast, their will continuously be attempts
    at nibbling on our resolve and eventually defeating it. Because we
    are dealing with a nation which has had no qualms in the killing of
    its citizens in the past or present, we are dealing with a nation
    whose arrogance has allowed it to have laws which make it illegal to
    question the Turkishness of its history, and who has complete and
    utter disregard for public opinion, and for whom human rights is
    something alien."
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