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    PRESIDENT COMPARES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TO AUSCHWITZ, CALLS FOR "NUREMBERG"

    HULIQ
    March 29 2010
    SC

    Serzh Sargsyan, The President of Armenia, couldn't help, but
    go to the desert Deir ez Zor during his official visit to Syria
    earlier in March. In his impressive speech at the meeting with the
    Syrian Armenians there, Mr. Sargsyan drew direct parallels between
    the crimes of Nazi's in Auschwitz and Young Turks' conduct of the
    Armenian Genocide.

    "Historians ... soundly compare Deir ez Zor with Auschwitz by
    saying that Deir ez Zor is the Auschwitz of Armenians.'I think that
    the chronology pushes us to present the facts in a reverse way:
    Auschwitz is the Deir ez Zor of Jews. Just one generation later,
    the humankind witnessed the Deir ez Zor of the Jews. Today, as the
    President of the Republic of Armenia, the homeland of all Armenians,
    I am here to ask: Where and when will our Nuremberg be held?" said
    the president of Armenia.

    Say the least of it, all Armenians know this place as the sinister
    symbol of the Armenian Genocide and understand the President's
    comparisons but what about the rest of the world? Was there a
    concentration camp in that desert? Why did the President appeal to
    Nuremberg? To understand this, people should know what happened in Deir
    ez Zor in 1915. According to different estimates, as many as 400,000
    Armenian citizens of Ottoman Empire found their final destination
    point within this Syrian desert after they had been banished from
    their lands into a long march. That desert became the witness of the
    annihilation of the remaining refugees who were forced by the Ottoman
    government to death marches.

    There were several major killing centers in the region known as Deir
    ez-Zor Camps where those innocent Armenians were exterminated. Here is
    the most important parallel with Auschwitz: both crimes were organized
    on a government level aiming at the elimination of the non-titular
    ethnic group in accordance with officially issued decrees. The
    formation of concentration camps by Nazi Germany was fully condemned
    by the famous Nuremberg trials, whereas the deportation and further
    systematic massacres of Armenians remained with impunity. This is
    the reason for the Armenian President's rhetorical question.

    The recent official recognition of the Armenian Genocide and the future
    consideration of this issue in the parliaments of some other countries
    cause ineffable anger of the Turkish officials. They probably realize
    that no one is going to try Turkey nowadays but that recognition is
    almost the same for them as Nuremberg trials.
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