[Spar]

Summary of events, quotes, articles of the time, first-hand accounts, suggested readings and pictures

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.

[muawiyah]

What concentration camps? The Turks weren't planning on keeping these folks in Anatolia. They were just marching them off across the mountains to "somewhere else".

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.

[prognostigaator]

Perhaps Turkey refuses to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, as documented above, because of Turkeys fear of having to pay reparations.

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?

[F.J. Mitchell]

And who the hell are we to presume to right all the wrongs of man's inhumanity to man that went on before our time? We are assured that God will judge-we should be thankful for that-who else is qualified?

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.

[Kermit]

Even Hitler recognized the Armenian Genocide, he said 'who remembers the Armenians'. That's one reason why he thought he could get away with the holocaust.

[Spar]

fyi

[Spar]

Editorial Cartoons of the Armenian Genocide

[Spar]

Armenian-Syrian WWI Poster, 1918

[Voronin]

And to think that President Tony Blair of Great Britain refuses each year on 'Genocide Day' to invite participation by the Armenian minority (nor the Serb minority). The US is hardly any better, each effort by the Armenian Lobby to get the event recognized nationally killed by Congress or executive waiver...

Ironically, the French did (eventually).

VRN