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Santa Barbara Independent, CA
Feb 8 2014
Millions Were Lost in Armenian Genocide
Saturday, February 8, 2014
By Alicia St. John, S.B.
The February 2 letter "Armenian Genocide Not Legally Founded" is
completely irresponsible. The denial of the Armenian genocide by
Turkish descendants is notorious. Turkey, as a nation, refuses to
admit to the slaughter of the Armenians. They have been denying it
since it happened in 1915.
Thousands of books have been written on the reality of the Armenian
genocide by people more prominent than Hillary Clinton or any of those
referenced in the letter. It is well known that Hitler based what he
did to the Jews on what the Turks did to the Armenians. He ended his
speech on invading Poland with "Who, after all, speaks today of the
annihilation of the Armenians?" One of the most educated commentaries
about the Armenian Genocide was published in the L.A. Times, noting
that the Armenian genocide was the first genocide of that century, and
had the world interfered, that would have set the precedent that
genocide is unacceptable by nations. The Times writer believed that
would have prevented every other genocide of that century.
The authors of the letter say the Armenian genocide should not be
taught in schools. Personally, I do not believe that children are
capable of understanding man's inhumanity to man. The subject should
be taught to older students, in the context of genocide, along with
all of the other instances of genocide. But, this does not mean that I
am in any way denying the Armenian genocide. That would be a negation
of history.
The Armenians were the first nation of people to accept Christianity
from the Emperor Constantine, in 301 AD. They lived secularized in the
Ottoman Empire, surrounded by the Muslim Turks. The Ottoman Empire was
tolerant of the Christians in their midst. When the Ottomans were
overthrown by the "Young Turk Guard," that tolerance was over. The
Turk Guard slaughtered millions of Armenian Christians to ethnically
cleanse their realm. The atrocities are compared to the Holocaust and
are the second-most-studied genocide. I encourage readers to contact
the Museum of Tolerance in L.A. to learn the truth.
http://www.independent.com/news/2014/feb/08/genocide-armenia-was-real/?on
From: Baghdasarian
Feb 8 2014
Millions Were Lost in Armenian Genocide
Saturday, February 8, 2014
By Alicia St. John, S.B.
The February 2 letter "Armenian Genocide Not Legally Founded" is
completely irresponsible. The denial of the Armenian genocide by
Turkish descendants is notorious. Turkey, as a nation, refuses to
admit to the slaughter of the Armenians. They have been denying it
since it happened in 1915.
Thousands of books have been written on the reality of the Armenian
genocide by people more prominent than Hillary Clinton or any of those
referenced in the letter. It is well known that Hitler based what he
did to the Jews on what the Turks did to the Armenians. He ended his
speech on invading Poland with "Who, after all, speaks today of the
annihilation of the Armenians?" One of the most educated commentaries
about the Armenian Genocide was published in the L.A. Times, noting
that the Armenian genocide was the first genocide of that century, and
had the world interfered, that would have set the precedent that
genocide is unacceptable by nations. The Times writer believed that
would have prevented every other genocide of that century.
The authors of the letter say the Armenian genocide should not be
taught in schools. Personally, I do not believe that children are
capable of understanding man's inhumanity to man. The subject should
be taught to older students, in the context of genocide, along with
all of the other instances of genocide. But, this does not mean that I
am in any way denying the Armenian genocide. That would be a negation
of history.
The Armenians were the first nation of people to accept Christianity
from the Emperor Constantine, in 301 AD. They lived secularized in the
Ottoman Empire, surrounded by the Muslim Turks. The Ottoman Empire was
tolerant of the Christians in their midst. When the Ottomans were
overthrown by the "Young Turk Guard," that tolerance was over. The
Turk Guard slaughtered millions of Armenian Christians to ethnically
cleanse their realm. The atrocities are compared to the Holocaust and
are the second-most-studied genocide. I encourage readers to contact
the Museum of Tolerance in L.A. to learn the truth.
http://www.independent.com/news/2014/feb/08/genocide-armenia-was-real/?on
From: Baghdasarian