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EACH YEAR ARMENIANS SUFFER TRAGEDY AND HUMILIATION: CALGARY HERALD
news.am, Armenia
April 7 2010
"April is the cruelest month for the people of Armenia, who every year
at this season suffer a continuing tragedy and a humiliation," reads
the article by Christopher Hitchens on Calgary Herald website. The
author recalls that Turkish authorities deny that mass killings
of Armenians occurred in Ottoman Empire in the beginning of last
century. Hitchens says that first time the word "genocide" was used
in 1943, though he prefers the wording "race extermination," that
was applied by the former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau.
Speaking about present Turkey's policy and deportation threats voiced
by Turkish Premier Erdogan, the author notes that illegal Turkish
workers can be found throughout EU. "How would the world respond if a
European prime minister called for the mass deportation of Turks? Yet,
Erdogan's xenophobic demagoguery attracted no condemnation from
Washington or Brussels," he deems.
"It is not just a disaster for Turkey that its prime minister
suffers from morbid personality disorders. The dead of Armenia will
never cease to cry out. Nor, on their behalf, should we cease to
do so. Let Turkey's unstable leader foam when other parliaments and
congresses discuss Armenia and seek the truth about it. The grotesque
fact remains that the Turkish parliament is forbidden by its own law
to do so. While this remains the case, we shall do it for them, and
without any apology, until they produce the one that is forthcoming
from them," the article reads.
news.am, Armenia
April 7 2010
"April is the cruelest month for the people of Armenia, who every year
at this season suffer a continuing tragedy and a humiliation," reads
the article by Christopher Hitchens on Calgary Herald website. The
author recalls that Turkish authorities deny that mass killings
of Armenians occurred in Ottoman Empire in the beginning of last
century. Hitchens says that first time the word "genocide" was used
in 1943, though he prefers the wording "race extermination," that
was applied by the former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau.
Speaking about present Turkey's policy and deportation threats voiced
by Turkish Premier Erdogan, the author notes that illegal Turkish
workers can be found throughout EU. "How would the world respond if a
European prime minister called for the mass deportation of Turks? Yet,
Erdogan's xenophobic demagoguery attracted no condemnation from
Washington or Brussels," he deems.
"It is not just a disaster for Turkey that its prime minister
suffers from morbid personality disorders. The dead of Armenia will
never cease to cry out. Nor, on their behalf, should we cease to
do so. Let Turkey's unstable leader foam when other parliaments and
congresses discuss Armenia and seek the truth about it. The grotesque
fact remains that the Turkish parliament is forbidden by its own law
to do so. While this remains the case, we shall do it for them, and
without any apology, until they produce the one that is forthcoming
from them," the article reads.