if anyone comes first its the armenians. they were the first victims of genocide and they have been waiting for over 100 years.
the thing that irritates me the most is that the US, britain, france, and russia all condemed it as a genocide, winston churchill....
these people deserve recognition. they are spread out across the world because of this geniocde, from land that they had lived on for millenias.
the turks during the first world war occupied all the way to morocco and almost all of the mid east, the arabs with the help of lawrence kicked them out of the mid east, so the turks withdrew from all but western armenia. there they commited genocides for fear of losing that land too.
all the armenians now living in the diaspora have families that were almost wiped out, relatives killed or forced into the desert.
whats shameful is that the US government has always been weak to turkish pressure, especially now that the US wants to look good with musilms.
this has nothing to do with religion, or anything like that. denying the armenian genocide is like denying the jewish one.
as for darfur, blame bush, if he didnt invade iraq, youd have more than enough troops to catch bin laden, stop genocide in darfur, and help new orleans victims.
I'd always thought the Boors in South Africa had been the first to feel the pain of genocide in the 20th Century, and at the hands of the British to boot.
Given that the Boors are descendants of the Huguenots for the most part, I'd suggest they are our own kith and kin and certainly stand in line for consideration ahead of the Armenians (if we are to get into the "stand in line" sort of thinking).
Here's what we need from you on this one ~ you must first denounce the British for commiting genocide in South Africa against the Boors. Secondly, you must demand a public apology from the Brits for that, as well as from any one with even a touch of British "blood". Going further, we want you to demand that you have all the people in the world who speak English apologize to the Boors, and to their American cousins (and that's going to be a bit strange looking, but that's what you have to ask for).
Finally, you, yourself, must apologize on behalf of both the Turks and the Armenians for having failed to denouce the genocide against the Boors as it occurred at the time.
Then I might think about something more ~ for you to do, not for me.