Armenian & African-American Communities : An imperceptable genocidal link ?

[CRDA-France]

Re: Armenian & African-American Communities : An imperceptable genocidal link ?

About black slaves in colonial British America, there had been an event of which what happenned with the Armenians in 1922 Izmir escape, is even not a pale reflexion.

Indeed, during the American Revolution, the British had promised to the slaves that if they fought with them against the rebels, they would have freedom and British citizenship. At the victory of American Independence, the British forces had to leave South Carolina. When the Blacks tried to embark with them on board, to impede them, the British sailors cut their hands with axes when they grasped to the edge of the boat :

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=american+revolution+british+slaves+hands+cuts&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

More than thirty years ago, I met an Armenian lady who was from Izmir. The kemalist troops were attacking the town which was burning in 1922 ; she was a little girl when she fled with her mother to the harbour. With emotion, she told us that sailors of French and English boats poored boiling water on the Greeks and the Armenians who were trying to get on board.

Nil

http://www.globalarmenianheritage-adic.fr/0en/cblacks_armenians/0home_c.htm

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[CRDA-France]

Re: Armenian & African-American Communities : An imperceptable genocidal link ?

Black Athena, a very interesting debate on the African roots of Greek civilisation : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=f&oq=&aqi=g10


In the 5/15 video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UmYA...eature=related
Professor John Henrik Clark speaks on H.G. Wells book : "Outline of History" as a representative monument of eurocentrist ideology (falsificating History) :

BUT WHAT A COINCIDENCE ! MUSTAFA KÉMAL IN READING THIS BOOK OF H.G. WELLS DECIDES TO MAKE STATE HISTORICAL FALSIFICATION :

http://www.globalarmenianheritage-adic.fr/fr/9genocide1915/a_falsificiations_historiques.htm

Coincidence ? Birds of same feather flock together? One is a fiction writer, the other one is the founder of a Republic which has been denying Genocide ! Please inform professors of African Studies in American Universities.

Nil

http://www.globalarmenianheritage-adic.fr/fr/4diaspora/3mondial/monde_usa_blacks.htm

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[TomServo]

Re: Armenian & African-American Communities : An imperceptable genocidal link ?

Black Athena, a very interesting debate on the African roots of Greek civilisation : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=f&oq=&aqi=g10

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudohistoire

[CRDA-France]

Re: Armenian & African-American Communities : An imperceptable genocidal link ?

Thank you for this page of Wikipedia. The English one is richer :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudohistory

Here is a YouTube serie on Black Athena with a more academic presentation :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4maNtzhL9Q&feature=related

Thanks to YouTube and Google, time has come that we can be aware how Silent Racism has influenced History : as Eurocentrism has influenced Mustafa Kemal.

Professor Henrik Clark says about H.G. Wells' "Outline of History" : "...; but, his interpretation is basically eurocentric to the point of being a prejudiced document."

Nil (Paris)
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[CRDA-France]

Re: Armenian & African-American Communities : An imperceptable genocidal link ?

Here are some links on Ottoman Slavery of Captured Africans :

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/029597642X/103-3208005-1036617?v=glance

http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=35405102

http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=livn;cc=livn;rgn=full%20text;idno=livn0004-6;didno=livn0004-6;view=image;seq=0362;node=livn0004-6%3A14

http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=putn;cc=putn;rgn=full%20text;idno=putn0005-6;didno=putn0005-6;view=image;seq=0623;node=putn0005-6%3A7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_(Ottoman_Empire)

Please inform your African American friends and neighbours.

Nil (Paris)
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en >> http://www.globalarmenianheritage-ad...s/esclaves.htm
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[CRDA-France]

Re: Armenian & African-American Communities : An imperceptable genocidal link ?

Belgium had Congo Colony. It was the personnal property of King Leopold II, a very dark person who behaved crually with the Africans for GREED (the industrial booming caoutchouc demand from rubber trees):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Leopold%27s_Ghost

Here is his Letter to Colonial Missionaries, 1883 : http://www.fafich.ufmg.br/~luarnaut/...ssionaries.pdf

http://video.google.fr/videoplay?doc...98088790358593 >> in English ?

This forced labour in Congo was contemporary with Hamidian Massacres :

http://www.globalarmenianheritage-adic.fr/fr/6histoire/a_d/19_sultanhamid.htm

I have found two Belgian historical personalities who protested samewise against Turkish and Belgian atrocities :

- Émile Vandervelde (1866-1938) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Vandervelde
- Georges LORAND (1860-1918) http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lorand

Please ask some questions to your African Friends and to specialists of African Studies (written 8-9 years ago): http://www.globalarmenianheritage-ad...tie/blacks.htm

To follow. Nil (Paris) http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
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[CRDA-France]

Re: Armenian & African-American Communities : An imperceptable genocidal link ?

The African-American, George Washington Williams coined the phrase, “crimes against humanity,” in his, “An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Léopold II, King of the Belgians and Sovereign of the Independent State of Congo),” dated July 18, 1890, from Boyoma, formerly known as Stanley Falls, in what is present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The ʻOpen Letter,” was addressed to King Leopold II of Belgium and the Secretary of State of the United States of Americaa. It was published and widely discussed in Europe and the United States; in it, Mr. Williams declared that Leopold II of Belgium was guilty of, “crimes against humanity.”

Please note that Mr. Williams coined the phrase about 25 years before, May 24, 1915, when the Allied Powers of World War I, i.e., Britain, France, and Russia, jointly issued a statement explicitly accusing another government of committing “a crime against humanity”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Williams

http://books.google.com/books?q=George+Washington+Williams+&btnG=Search+Books

http://images.google.com/images?q=George%20Washington%20Williams&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Nil Agopoff (Paris, France)

http://www.globalarmenianheritage-adic.fr/0en/cblacks_armenians/0home_c.htm

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[CRDA-France]

Re: Armenian & African-American Communities : An imperceptable genocidal link ?

There is an article in the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia website : "The ‘Odious Scourge’: Evolving Interpretations of the Crime of Genocide" by William A. Schabas, Irish Professor of Human Rights Law, National University of Ireland, Galway and Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=William%20A.%20Schabas&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

This article is the speech of that professor at the International Conference in Yerevan, Armenia, 20-21 April 2005 : ‘Ultimate Crime, Ultimate Challenge, Human Rights and Genocide’ - Organized by The National Commission for the Commemoration of the 90th Anniverary of the Armenian Genocide.

At the bottom of the first page, at the foot notes, we can read :

This initial use of the term ‘crimes against humanity’ was noted in some of the first judgments of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (Prosecutor v. Tadic (Case No. IT-94-1-T), Opinion and Judgment, 7 May 1997, para. 618, fn. 87) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Prosecutor v. Akayesu (Case No. ICTR-96-4-T), Judgment, 2 September 1998, para. 29).

The concept of crimes against humanity, however, had been in existence long before 1915. During debates in the National Assembly, French revolutionary Robespierre described the King, Louis XVI, as a ‘[c]riminal against humanity’: Maximilien Robespierre, OEuvres, IX, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1952, p. 130.

In 1890, an American observer, GEORGES WASHNGTON WILLIAMS, wrote to the United States Secretary of State that King Leopold’s regime in Congo was responsible for ‘crimes against humanity’: Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost, Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998, p. 112.

Best regards from Paris. Nil.
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[CRDA-France]

Re: Armenian & African-American Communities : An imperceptable genocidal link ?

Here in France we an Armenian Opera singer who sings Gospel. With her sister who is also an Opera singer specialized in Armenian religious songs, they performed together mixing both religious songs.

I unfortunately have not the chance to go these performances, they live south of France. I do not know how in musical harmony and sensibility this is successfull. There is here a risky artistic adventure. But the idea is very-very good. We have to develop this idea.

>>> Do you know any Armenian American Opera Singers who have done such performances ?

Please help me. I am preparing a new web page on this subject.

Together, we must prepare a future visit of Catholicos Aram I or Karekine II paying respect to Martin Luther King in Atlanta.

You'll see, one day, an Oecumenical mass with the Armenians will be consecrated in the big church of M.L.K.Center of Atlanta :

http://www.globalarmenianheritage-adic.fr/0en/cblacks_armenians/mlk_armenians.htm

Nil (Paris)
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http://www.globalarmenianheritage-adic.fr/fr/4diaspora/3mondial/monde_usa_blacks.htm

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Re: Armenian & African-American Communities : An imperceptable genocidal link ?

New page : http://www.globalarmenianheritage-ad...e/8_gospel.htm

Please remember my request when you hear of any Armenian American Opera Singers who have done performances with gospels. Thank you.

Take care. Nil.
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