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DENIAL OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BY TURKEY ABSURD - LAWRENCE SCHNEIDERMAN
news.am
July 12, 2012 | 00:22
YEREVAN. - Armenian News-NEWS.am presents pieces of Vanderbilt
University public policy Professor Lawrence Schneiderman's article
published in Eurasia Review:
According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington,
DC, Genocide is a very specific term, referring to violent crimes
committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of
the group.
Genocide is a specific and horrendous act that should not be
trivialized. Equally, it is wrong to apply its use incorrectly for
political gain or correctness.
For anyone who has forgotten - here is a short recap of actual
genocides in the 20th century. The Armenian Genocide was implemented in
1915 and lasted until the end of World War I. In the end, the Ottoman
Turks had murdered 1.5 million Armenian men, women, and children. The
means of extermination were methodically planned, with the intention
of destroying the existence of the Armenian people in Turkey. They
used some of the same methods we associate with Nazi Germany, such as
death marches, starvation, extermination camps, use of poison gases,
drowning children, and mass burnings.
Their intent from the start was to wipe out the Armenian people, with
the ultimate end game resulting in the systematic eradication of the
Armenian population from Turkey. The fact that modern day Turkey,
under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, denies that it was
genocide is ridiculous.
The Jewish Holocaust of World War II is understood and accepted today
as the definition of Genocide, in most of the world. The exception
is the world's Islamic nations. Nazi Germany and their Quisling
collaborators exterminated 6 million Jews, two-thirds of the Jewish
population of Europe, in a systematic state planned program, The Final
Solution. The methods and means of history's most horrific genocide
are well documented.
From: Baghdasarian
news.am
July 12, 2012 | 00:22
YEREVAN. - Armenian News-NEWS.am presents pieces of Vanderbilt
University public policy Professor Lawrence Schneiderman's article
published in Eurasia Review:
According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington,
DC, Genocide is a very specific term, referring to violent crimes
committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of
the group.
Genocide is a specific and horrendous act that should not be
trivialized. Equally, it is wrong to apply its use incorrectly for
political gain or correctness.
For anyone who has forgotten - here is a short recap of actual
genocides in the 20th century. The Armenian Genocide was implemented in
1915 and lasted until the end of World War I. In the end, the Ottoman
Turks had murdered 1.5 million Armenian men, women, and children. The
means of extermination were methodically planned, with the intention
of destroying the existence of the Armenian people in Turkey. They
used some of the same methods we associate with Nazi Germany, such as
death marches, starvation, extermination camps, use of poison gases,
drowning children, and mass burnings.
Their intent from the start was to wipe out the Armenian people, with
the ultimate end game resulting in the systematic eradication of the
Armenian population from Turkey. The fact that modern day Turkey,
under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, denies that it was
genocide is ridiculous.
The Jewish Holocaust of World War II is understood and accepted today
as the definition of Genocide, in most of the world. The exception
is the world's Islamic nations. Nazi Germany and their Quisling
collaborators exterminated 6 million Jews, two-thirds of the Jewish
population of Europe, in a systematic state planned program, The Final
Solution. The methods and means of history's most horrific genocide
are well documented.
From: Baghdasarian