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To: pravknight
Okay, the systematic murder of 1.5 million people

.... stated thus is not a factual historical event -- it is propoganda.

The Holocaust was systematic murder.

The deaths of 600,000 - 1,500,000 (giving wide lattitude for reasonable disagreement) Armenians was due to mass killings, ethnic (two-way) violence, starvation, disease, etc.

Whether it was 'genocide' is doubtful but debatable, and depends on whether one insists on an exact meaning or a more general one. It was certainly tragic.

38 posted on 04/26/2006 7:15:39 AM PDT by JohnnyZ (Happy New Year! Breed like dogs!)
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To: JohnnyZ

When did you start hating Armenians?


70 posted on 04/26/2006 8:47:51 AM PDT by pravknight (Christos Regnat, Christos Imperat, Christus Vincit)
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To: JohnnyZ

The Ottoman Young Turk movement was committed to ridding the Ottoman Empire of its non-Turkish population.

Here is a Web site documenting the attrocities, which were systematic.
http://www.armenian-genocide.org/research.html


72 posted on 04/26/2006 8:51:45 AM PDT by pravknight (Christos Regnat, Christos Imperat, Christus Vincit)
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To: JohnnyZ

I see it more as another case of the Religion of Peace and their policies regarding Christians.


94 posted on 04/26/2006 10:00:51 AM PDT by unionblue83
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To: JohnnyZ
Whether it was 'genocide' is doubtful but debatable, and depends on whether one insists on an exact meaning or a more general one. It was certainly tragic.

Forcing people to march into the desert without food or water was just a little misunderstanding.

130 posted on 04/26/2006 11:24:03 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
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