Other Races of the Genocide

[Universal]

"In December 2007, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the world's leading genocide scholars organization, overwhelmingly passed a resolution officially recognizing the Assyrian genocide, along with the genocide against Ottoman Greeks"

The Resolution:
"WHEREAS the denial of genocide is widely recognized as the final stage of genocide, enshrining impunity for the perpetrators of genocide, and demonstrably paving the way for future genocides;
WHEREAS the Ottoman genocide against minority populations during and following the First World War is usually depicted as a genocide against Armenians alone, with little recognition of the qualitatively similar genocides against other Christian minorities of the Ottoman Empire;
BE IT RESOLVED that it is the conviction of the International Association of Genocide Scholars that the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Association calls upon the government of Turkey to acknowledge the genocides against these populations, to issue a formal apology, and to take prompt and meaningful steps toward restitution."

Fellow Armenians Please Read My Entire Thread On the Subject At:
http://www.armenianplanet.com/viewtopic.php?t=2108 For More Information
Thank You

[Universal]

Re: Other Races of the Genocide

Does anyone want to add to this overlooked history? I would appreciate any comments.

Thank You

[Universal]

Re: Other Races of the Genocide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_Genocide (Assyrians)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontic_Greek_Genocide (Greeks)

[Universal]

Re: Other Races of the Genocide

"WHEREAS the Ottoman genocide against minority populations during and following the First World War is usually depicted as a genocide against Armenians alone, with little recognition of the qualitatively similar genocides against other Christian minorities of the Ottoman Empire;"

[Crimson Glow]

Re: Other Races of the Genocide

What about it? I think most Armenians are well aware that, while we may have suffered the greatest losses due to being the largest Christian minority population within the Ottoman Empire, what happened was actually a genocide against all Ottoman Christians. No one has ever downplayed, or disregarded any of this. We've merely concentrated our efforts on the recognition of our losses due to the huge death totals which nearly wiped out the entire existence of our ethnicity (even today, with nearly 3/4 of the Armenian population living in the diaspora and assimilating, we grow closer to extinction every day), and the fact that just about everything on the western half of Turkey had been our lands for thousands of years. This does not mean we don't know about, acknowledge or morn the loses of the other Christians that senselessly lost their lives.

[Universal]

Re: Other Races of the Genocide

That's not true most people don't know and are never educated about it.

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Other Races of the Genocide

That's not true most people don't know and are never educated about it.

The things that "most people don't know" would fill a library. Which is why we have libraries.

Most people who are aware of the general history of that region and that time period will know about it.

[hrai]

Re: Other Races of the Genocide

That's not true most people don't know and are never educated about it.

There are quite a number of existing threads here regarding the genocides of other christians by the ottomans/turks. Read them is my suggestion........
As Crimson says, this forum is about Armenians, without detracting from or ignoring other ethnic groups and their sufferings.