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ANZAC DAY BEING HIJACKED BY TURKS TO HIDE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CENTENARY
13:54, 08 Apr 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
The Ngapuhi leader and academic David Rankin has called for Maori
to boycott this year's centennial ANZAC commemorations becaue the
Turkish Government is using the event to deflect attention from the
Armenian Genocide, in which over a million indigenous Armenians were
killed by the Turks, Scoop Politicsreports.
"The Armenian holocaust began on 24 April 1915, so what better way
for Turkey to hide it than to put all attention on ANZAC Day," says
Mr Rankin. "The indigenous Armenian population was slaughtered by
the colonising Turks and our involvement in the ANZAC centennial at
Gallipoli is supporting the genocide of the coloniser. Indigenous
peoples need to stand up and fight the oppressor"
"Turkey was the ISIS of its day," says Mr Rankin. "It killed nearly
one and a half million Armenians because they were Christians and
they were on territories that the Turks wanted to colonise. We are
effectively supporting this by going along with the commemorations that
are being orchestrated at Gallipoli. They are a diversionary tactic."
Mr Rankin wrote to the Turkish Ambassador to New Zealand about this
matter in January but has not received any response. "This shows me
that their attitude to indigenous peoples has not changed in a hundred
years. We can still be ignored and treated like dirt," says Mr Rankin.
Mr Rankin is calling on Maori and other indigenous groups to boycott
this year's ANZAC Day events and as a sign of their solidarity with
the indigenous Armenians, to stop wearing poppies this year.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/04/08/anzac-day-being-hijacked-by-turks-to-hide-armenian-genocide-centenary/
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1504/S00052/iwi-leader-calls-for-maori-boycott-of-anzac-day.htm
From: Baghdasarian
13:54, 08 Apr 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
The Ngapuhi leader and academic David Rankin has called for Maori
to boycott this year's centennial ANZAC commemorations becaue the
Turkish Government is using the event to deflect attention from the
Armenian Genocide, in which over a million indigenous Armenians were
killed by the Turks, Scoop Politicsreports.
"The Armenian holocaust began on 24 April 1915, so what better way
for Turkey to hide it than to put all attention on ANZAC Day," says
Mr Rankin. "The indigenous Armenian population was slaughtered by
the colonising Turks and our involvement in the ANZAC centennial at
Gallipoli is supporting the genocide of the coloniser. Indigenous
peoples need to stand up and fight the oppressor"
"Turkey was the ISIS of its day," says Mr Rankin. "It killed nearly
one and a half million Armenians because they were Christians and
they were on territories that the Turks wanted to colonise. We are
effectively supporting this by going along with the commemorations that
are being orchestrated at Gallipoli. They are a diversionary tactic."
Mr Rankin wrote to the Turkish Ambassador to New Zealand about this
matter in January but has not received any response. "This shows me
that their attitude to indigenous peoples has not changed in a hundred
years. We can still be ignored and treated like dirt," says Mr Rankin.
Mr Rankin is calling on Maori and other indigenous groups to boycott
this year's ANZAC Day events and as a sign of their solidarity with
the indigenous Armenians, to stop wearing poppies this year.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/04/08/anzac-day-being-hijacked-by-turks-to-hide-armenian-genocide-centenary/
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1504/S00052/iwi-leader-calls-for-maori-boycott-of-anzac-day.htm
From: Baghdasarian