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Richmond Times Dispatch (Virginia)
July 23, 2014 Wednesday
Operation Nemesis
SECTION: EDITORIAL; Pg. A-08
President George W. Bush perceived Vladimir Putin's soul. Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton pushed the reset button regarding relations
between Moscow and Washington. On July 17, a Malaysia Airlines jet
fell from the skies over Ukraine. Two hundred ninety-eight passengers
and crew members died.
The United States attributes the catastrophe to a missile attack.
Attention focuses on pro-Russian separatists. Russia itself may have
supplied the weaponry and taught its allies how to use it. Amateurs
could not have done this. Russia likely knew.
These are the crimes that try humans' souls.
During World War I, Turkey subjected Armenians to genocide. Turkey
refuses to acknowledge what it did, but the world at large has
rendered its verdict. Armenians did not let the enormity vanish into
the mists. In "The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a
Religious Crusade," Philip Jenkins relates how "after the war's end,
militant death squads assassinated many former Ottoman leaders and
collaborators, including junta leader Djemal Pasha, as part of
Operation Nemesis." After an Armenian killed the reputed mastermind of
the genocide in Berlin, the trial of the alleged assassin put Turkey's
mass murderers in the dock. The expose led the German court to free
the Armenian because of the sufferings he and his nation had endured.
A precedent was set. Decades later the Nuremberg trials would bring
Nazis to justice. Jenkins writes that as a result of the Armenian
genocide, "the oldest Christian world perished."
Ukraine inhabits the borderlands, a vast region of heartbreak and
blood. The Armenian Genocide occurred within its broader confines. We
do not endorse assassination; legal alternatives are preferred. Yet it
would not be unjust if those responsible directly or indirectly for
the atrocity in Ukraine spent their sleep uncomforted by sweet dreams
but disturbed by nightmares. Putin, too, should hear screams.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/opinion/our-opinion/editorial-operation-nemesis/article_93faa0c6-aa7c-5cf6-8836-8d80d4bb4597.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
July 23, 2014 Wednesday
Operation Nemesis
SECTION: EDITORIAL; Pg. A-08
President George W. Bush perceived Vladimir Putin's soul. Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton pushed the reset button regarding relations
between Moscow and Washington. On July 17, a Malaysia Airlines jet
fell from the skies over Ukraine. Two hundred ninety-eight passengers
and crew members died.
The United States attributes the catastrophe to a missile attack.
Attention focuses on pro-Russian separatists. Russia itself may have
supplied the weaponry and taught its allies how to use it. Amateurs
could not have done this. Russia likely knew.
These are the crimes that try humans' souls.
During World War I, Turkey subjected Armenians to genocide. Turkey
refuses to acknowledge what it did, but the world at large has
rendered its verdict. Armenians did not let the enormity vanish into
the mists. In "The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a
Religious Crusade," Philip Jenkins relates how "after the war's end,
militant death squads assassinated many former Ottoman leaders and
collaborators, including junta leader Djemal Pasha, as part of
Operation Nemesis." After an Armenian killed the reputed mastermind of
the genocide in Berlin, the trial of the alleged assassin put Turkey's
mass murderers in the dock. The expose led the German court to free
the Armenian because of the sufferings he and his nation had endured.
A precedent was set. Decades later the Nuremberg trials would bring
Nazis to justice. Jenkins writes that as a result of the Armenian
genocide, "the oldest Christian world perished."
Ukraine inhabits the borderlands, a vast region of heartbreak and
blood. The Armenian Genocide occurred within its broader confines. We
do not endorse assassination; legal alternatives are preferred. Yet it
would not be unjust if those responsible directly or indirectly for
the atrocity in Ukraine spent their sleep uncomforted by sweet dreams
but disturbed by nightmares. Putin, too, should hear screams.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/opinion/our-opinion/editorial-operation-nemesis/article_93faa0c6-aa7c-5cf6-8836-8d80d4bb4597.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress