Posted on 04/16/2015 9:41:52 AM PDT by NRx
CUNGUS, Turkey The crumbling stone monastery, built into the hillside, stands as a forlorn monument to an awful past. So, too, does the decaying church on the other side of this mountain village. Farther out, a crevice is sliced into the earth, so deep that peering into it, one sees only blackness. Haunting for its history, it was there that a century ago, an untold number of Armenians were tossed to their deaths.
They threw them in that hole, all the men, said Vahit Sahin, 78, sitting at a cafe in the center of the village, reciting the stories that have passed through generations.
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I wish more people understood that the Armenians were killed by Muslims in large part BECAUSE they were Christians. Often that was the only reason.
2 recent books on the Armenian genocide: Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian (based on his grandfather) and The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bojhalian, a novel based on the life of E. Endicott, a Bostonian who tried to save many of the refugees.
What’s to understand? Death and torture is death and torture, no matter the reason.
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