Announcement

Collapse

Forum Rules (Everyone Must Read!!!)

1] What you CAN NOT post.

You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this forum to post any material which is:
- abusive
- vulgar
- hateful
- harassing
- personal attacks
- obscene

You also may not:
- post images that are too large (max is 500*500px)
- post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or cited properly.
- post in UPPER CASE, which is considered yelling
- post messages which insult the Armenians, Armenian culture, traditions, etc
- post racist or other intentionally insensitive material that insults or attacks another culture (including Turks)

The Ankap thread is excluded from the strict rules because that place is more relaxed and you can vent and engage in light insults and humor. Notice it's not a blank ticket, but just a place to vent. If you go into the Ankap thread, you enter at your own risk of being clowned on.
What you PROBABLY SHOULD NOT post...
Do not post information that you will regret putting out in public. This site comes up on Google, is cached, and all of that, so be aware of that as you post. Do not ask the staff to go through and delete things that you regret making available on the web for all to see because we will not do it. Think before you post!


2] Use descriptive subject lines & research your post. This means use the SEARCH.

This reduces the chances of double-posting and it also makes it easier for people to see what they do/don't want to read. Using the search function will identify existing threads on the topic so we do not have multiple threads on the same topic.

3] Keep the focus.

Each forum has a focus on a certain topic. Questions outside the scope of a certain forum will either be moved to the appropriate forum, closed, or simply be deleted. Please post your topic in the most appropriate forum. Users that keep doing this will be warned, then banned.

4] Behave as you would in a public location.

This forum is no different than a public place. Behave yourself and act like a decent human being (i.e. be respectful). If you're unable to do so, you're not welcome here and will be made to leave.

5] Respect the authority of moderators/admins.

Public discussions of moderator/admin actions are not allowed on the forum. It is also prohibited to protest moderator actions in titles, avatars, and signatures. If you don't like something that a moderator did, PM or email the moderator and try your best to resolve the problem or difference in private.

6] Promotion of sites or products is not permitted.

Advertisements are not allowed in this venue. No blatant advertising or solicitations of or for business is prohibited.
This includes, but not limited to, personal resumes and links to products or
services with which the poster is affiliated, whether or not a fee is charged
for the product or service. Spamming, in which a user posts the same message repeatedly, is also prohibited.

7] We retain the right to remove any posts and/or Members for any reason, without prior notice.


- PLEASE READ -

Members are welcome to read posts and though we encourage your active participation in the forum, it is not required. If you do participate by posting, however, we expect that on the whole you contribute something to the forum. This means that the bulk of your posts should not be in "fun" threads (e.g. Ankap, Keep & Kill, This or That, etc.). Further, while occasionally it is appropriate to simply voice your agreement or approval, not all of your posts should be of this variety: "LOL Member213!" "I agree."
If it is evident that a member is simply posting for the sake of posting, they will be removed.


8] These Rules & Guidelines may be amended at any time. (last update September 17, 2009)

If you believe an individual is repeatedly breaking the rules, please report to admin/moderator.
See more
See less

Assyrian, Greek, Armenian Genocide Conference Held in Athens

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Assyrian, Greek, Armenian Genocide Conference Held in Athens



    Assyrian International News Agency

    Assyrian, Greek, Armenian Genocide Conference Held in Athens
    Posted GMT 4-2-2016 3:59:56


    The International Conference "Three Genocides, One Strategy" was held from 17th to the 19th of September 2010 at the Old Parliament House in Athens, Greece. There were representatives from Sweden, United States of America, Israel, Turkey, France, Lebanon and other countries present at this Conference.

    An Assyrian Genocide Recognition contingent joined together with its Greek and Armenian counterparts last weekend, in a conference discussing the joint Genocide of the three peoples that took place in South Eastern Turkey and North Western Iran. Seyfo, as it is known to the Assyrians, took place during the First World War, claiming the lives of over 750,000 Assyrians -- it was a genocide that claimed about three million Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians overall.

    Among the Assyrian Delegates was Seyfo Center's Director, Sabri Atman, a regular attendee of the Three Genocides, One Strategy annual conference since its inception in 2008. The Assyrian delegates included Kyriakos Batsaras, Thea Halo, Ashur Giwargis, and Joseph Zaya.

    On the second day of the Conference Ashur Giwargis presented his speech. The first point made was:

    We are simply Assyrians, not Chaldeans neither Syriacs nor Syrians, because Chaldeans are Catholic Assyrians, and Syrians or so-called Syriacs, are Orthodox Assyrians, so, It would be better to say "Assyrians" because it's our ethnic national identity, and in this case we would be talking about all the Assyrian sects. We can't say "Arabs and Sunna" because there are Sunni and Shiite Arabs.
    He covered the background of the Genocide, its consequences and the world's conscience:

    The official records such as the Russian, British and even Turkish correspondence, confirm that between 1914 and 1922, Turkey had led its armies which invaded the unarmed Assyrian, Armenian and Greeks' villages and towns and committed ethnic cleansing whereby about 600 000 Assyrians, the equivalent of two thirds of the Assyrian nation at the time were massacred.
    Ashur Giwargis highlighted the importance and significance of the Genocide recognition:

    The international community's neglect of this issue is like a second Genocide and disrespect for the concepts of humanity, and the most dangerous thing is that this silence is considered as an incitement for more expected Genocides against the weak people in the world, including the Assyrian people whom I present as an example.
    The final and third day of the conference commenced with Mr Nik Papadopoulos' speech. Mr Nik Papadopoulos is the President of European section of the Inter-parliamentary Association of Greek origin. The presentation followed by Mr Sabri Atman's address to the congregation. In his address Mr Atman proclaimed the importance of recognition, acceptance and reconciliation of past atrocities to the healing process:

    It is clear from the Ottoman documents that 1915 deportations and massacres were not only directed against the Armenians. The general plan was to get rid of all the local indigenous non-Muslim people. So that what was left from that huge empire, all that of Anatolia, to be homogenized as Turkey or Turkish nation! This at the end resulted in over 3 million of Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, xxxs and Yezidis being massacred or deported from their homelands.
    He elaborated on how there is a permanent weight and difficulty the genocide survivors bear, as they face constant denial by the perpetrators which adds insult to the injury suffered. It should not be dismissed that:

    December 19th 2007 the International Association of Genocide Scholars adopted a resolution to recognize the Assyrian Genocide. This is a huge milestone. An international organisation made of qualified scholars has made a resolution that what happened to Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, xxxs and Yezidis by the Ottoman Empire was in fact Genocide.
    Turkey has been claiming that it has changed and has become a Democratic country and should be welcomed to the European Union:

    Today I call upon Turkey to free itself from its taboos and recognize that, during the late Ottoman Empire, hundreds of thousands of Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and other minorities were killed in a planned, organized genocide that was carried out by the government of the time.
    In a series of events that is nothing short of ironic, Armenia and Greece have yet to officially acknowledge the Assyrian Genocide:

    For obvious reasons republic of Armenia should recognise the Greeks and Assyrian Genocide. And also for the same reason Greece should also recognise the Assyrian Genocide. Who else better than Greeks and Armenians can understand our pain and sufferings? Assyrians request from Greece and Armenia to officially recognise the Assyrian Genocide.
    Sabri Atman concluded his speech with:

    I have a suggestion for the organisers of this event. As three nations, let us stand together to have a memorial monument for the victims of the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian Genocide right here in Athens!
    Three Genocides, One Strategy, One Voice, One Recognition, One Healing!

    Turkey should know this: the descendants of the Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians living all over the world will never leave you alone until you acknowledge and recognise the Genocide!

    Professor Israel Charny, Executive Director of the Institute of the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem addressed the congregation following Mr Sabri Atman. One of Professor Israel Charny's publications is "Encyclopedia of Genocide".

    The next "Three Genocide, One Strategy" Conference will be held in 2012 in Sweden.

    By Seyfo Center
    Assyrian Genocide Research Center
    General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”
Working...
X