Genocide on BBC

[ArmoBarbi]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4478919.stm

BBC is my fave news site. Glad to see a section on the Genocide today.

[Che_Ka]

Good article.

But some factual errors, like this:

<<It is believed that there are three times the number of ethnic Armenians in Lebanon than in Armenia itself, which has a population of three million. >>

9 million Armenians in Lebanon. Who knew! lol

[ArmoBarbi]

Yeah, that made me raise my eyebrow lol Oh well, they did say, "It is believed"...that's true, since they do believe it.

[Siamanto]

Good article.

But some factual errors, like this:

<<It is believed that there are three times the number of ethnic Armenians in Lebanon than in Armenia itself, which has a population of three million. >>

9 million Armenians in Lebanon. Who knew! lol

Great! 9M out of 3.7M are Armenian!

CIA Factbook

Not bad!

[bell-the-cat]

Yeah, that made me raise my eyebrow lol Oh well, they did say, "It is believed"...that's true, since they do believe it.

The BBC "believes" what the British Labour Party tells it to believe. So don't expect to actually see any programs about the Armenian Genocide on BBC TV.

[ArmoBarbi]

The BBC "believes" what the British Labour Party tells it to believe. So don't expect to actually see any programs about the Armenian Genocide on BBC TV.

poopy ....I had an idea It's still good to have it mentioned

[Che_Ka]

Well there was a link to a 2-minute snippet of what was shown today on BBC about the Gencocide commemoration event at Dzidzernagapert. It was essentially a rehashed version of the written story. But with visuals!

And the girl said "Yerevan" oh-so perfectly.

[Siamanto]

Well there was a link to a 2-minute snippet of what was shown today on BBC about the Gencocide commemoration event at Dzidzernagapert. It was essentially a rehashed version of the written story. But with visuals!

And the girl said "Yerevan" oh-so perfectly.

I just watched a 3 minute segement on the Armenian Genocide:
1- Dzidzernagapert
2- Commemoration in Paris
3- Armenian Community of TEMPORARILY SO CALLED Turkey commemorating silently the Genocide : they explained how they can't express themselves in public and are afraid of repressive retaliations.
3- *urks - Grey Wolves - demonstrating against the Genocide. The usual lies about the relocation thesis. It was not a small demonstration
5- They explained how some *urkish intellectuals have been in the past - and still are - oppressed and harassed for recognizing the Genocide. Historian commenting on the *urkish denialist thesis


Note: I have chosen to auto censor the words "*urk" or "*urkish" because it is commonly perceived as unpleasant and offending, evokes unpleasant emotions and imagery and is pregnant with immoral and evil connotations!

[Anonymouse]

Note: I have chosen to auto censor the words "*urk" or "*urkish" because it is commonly perceived as unpleasant and offending, evokes unpleasant emotions and imagery and is pregnant with immoral and evil connotations!

Turk Douglas was a good actor.

[bell-the-cat]

Well there was a link to a 2-minute snippet of what was shown today on BBC about the Gencocide commemoration event at Dzidzernagapert. It was essentially a rehashed version of the written story. But with visuals!

And the girl said "Yerevan" oh-so perfectly.

It must have been shown on some section or other of BBC world news - it was not shown on the national BBC news shown in Britain. It was just the usual "what Armenians say" stuff anyway. And, as well as not mentioning that it was Turkey that closed the border, the commentary implies that the border closure is connected with the Genocide issue, which it is not. (And is there really "unbearable heat" in Yerevan in April?)

But the point I was trying to make was the you will not see a documentary about the Armenain Genocide shown on BBC TV, for the reason I mentioned. There was one (and not a very good one) made by the BBC 4 or 5 years ago as a piece of tokenism to non-Jews for Blair's "Genocide Memorial" day". But not even that one was shown again to mark the 90th anniversary.