Photographed by a German Officer in Turkey.
Turkish hangmen and their victims in Aleppo, 1915.
Turkish soldiers pose proudly with their Armenian victims.
6,000 Orphans form star for "Near East Relief" aid organization.
Posted on 04/27/2002 2:37:50 PM PDT by Spar
Marchers mark anniversary of mass killings in Ottoman Empire
Sat Apr 27, 3:46 PM ET
LONDON - Almost 1,000 people marched through central London Saturday to commemorate the 87th anniversary of mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
The group called for recognition from the Turkish and British governments that the killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1919 was genocide.
Turkey has always rejected such claims, saying Armenians were killed in civil unrest during the collapse of the empire.
Hratche Koundarjian, spokesman for the Campaign for Recognition of the Armenian Genocide, said the killings wiped out 65 to 70 percent of the population.
Koundarjian said the demonstration was held to draw attention to the death marches to concentration camps that the Armenians were forced to join.
"If we march for two hours and get sore feet we might just begin to get a very small idea of what it is like being marched to your death," he said.
"The European Parliament has called on Turkey to recognize the genocide. But the British Government refuses to recognize the genocide — a convenient policy to promote relations with Turkey."
Campaigners also held vigils outside the Turkish embassy in London during the week.
(jw)
Photographed by a German Officer in Turkey.
Turkish hangmen and their victims in Aleppo, 1915.
Turkish soldiers pose proudly with their Armenian victims.
6,000 Orphans form star for "Near East Relief" aid organization.
You know, it is not necessary that you even have an intention of killing people to end up killing a lot of them. On any long march you will lose the very young, the old, the handicapped.
If this is a forced march, young, healthy people among the victim group will challenge you with force as they see their grandmothers and their children die. You will then have to kill them.
Next thing you know genocide will have happened.
The Turkish government and the Turkish people feel no guilt over this event since "they did not intend it". That does not mean they are not guilty of an atrocity!
Folks who want to line up all the illegal aliens and march them over the border back to Mexico should be aware that there are ALWAYS unintended consequences for such actions.
I am aware of a few survivors still living in the US, France , and Argentina who also have written articles and personal letters of their harrowing experiences...and could legitimately lay claim to any such reparations.
Can one conclude then, that Turkey is playing the waiting game?
If the rabble rousers have their way, we will spend all our time and energy, atoning for, apologizing for, repenting for, and trying to fix problems and evils, not of our making. We have more than we can handle, undoing and repairing what we ourselves have screwed up, and that, thank God, is the extent of our guilt and responsibility.
Capitalized a couple of proper nouns for you.Hopefully the oversight was not intentional.
BTW ,what religion do the Zimbabians and So. Africans follow?
Actually don't know .
All that is known is that the Africans killed each other unmercifully while the heads of state pocketed famine relief and aid monies....
Armenian-Syrian WWI Poster, 1918
The Turks will never take responsibility nor even admit that the attempted genocide of the Armenians took place. That is why they cannot be trusted as an ally -- their moral compas is obscured by their determination to believe a lie rahter than face the truth.
I'm not in the habit of defending Muslim terrorists and I sure don't intend to start now. We do have our hands full right now though, keeping the present day islamic zealots from erasing everything resembling civilization, from existance and memory.
Ironically, the French did (eventually).
VRN
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