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    General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

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    Take pride in slave past?
    At least this country admits shameful history, something Turkey won't do


    October 14, 2007
    BY NEIL STEINBERG Sun-Times Columnist
    Opening shot
    You want to feel good about this country? Talk about slavery.

    How, you may ask, can this shameful peak of human cruelty, whose lingering bad effects are felt to this day, be a source of pride to the nation that tolerated its existence for nearly a century?

    Because at least we recognize it. We are aware of it; we teach about slavery in schools. We can talk about it. And if we don't face facts as much as we should, then at least debating them isn't against the law.

    Compare that to Turkey. A nation of 72 million people, Turkey is the most westernized Muslim state in the world. And yet, a Turkish writer would commit a crime and risk prison just by writing this sentence: "in 1915, Turks oversaw the murder of 1.5 million Armenians, the largest European genocide before World War II."

    To Turkey, this is slander. So now, our alliance is endangered -- Turkey has recalled its ambassador, and is threatening to stop helping us wage our losing war in Iraq -- just because a House subcommittee voted to label the 1915 deaths a "genocide.''

    Why do they act this way? National pride, and inability to process difficult truths. A too common problem in this world. The United States might have its moments of shame, like any other land. But at least we can talk about them. We should be proud of that.
    General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

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      The Miami Herald, FL
      Oct 13 2007


      Armenian genocide mustn't be forgotten

      Posted on Sat, Oct. 13, 2007
      By HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS

      A divided U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved
      House Resolution 106 condemning the Armenian genocide. Below are
      excerpts.

      The Armenian genocide was conceived and carried out by the Ottoman
      Empire from 1915 to 1923, resulting in the deportation of nearly two
      million Armenians, of whom 1.5 million men, women, and children were
      killed, 500,000 survivors were expelled from their homes, and which
      succeeded in the elimination of the over 2,500-year presence of
      Armenians in their historic homeland.

      - On May 24, 1915, the Allied powers -- England, France and Russia --
      jointly issued a statement explicitly charging for the first time
      ever another government of committing ``a crime against humanity.''

      - The post-World War I Turkish government indicted the top leaders
      involved in the ''organization and execution'' of the Armenian
      genocide and in the ``massacre and destruction of the Armenians.''

      - As displayed in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Adolf Hitler,
      on ordering his military commanders to attack Poland without
      provocation in 1939, dismissed objections by saying ''[w]ho, after
      all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?'' and set the
      stage for the Holocaust.

      - Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term ''genocide'' in 1944, and who
      was the earliest proponent of the United Nations Convention on the
      Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, invoked the Armenian case as a
      definitive example of genocide.

      - In 1948, the U.N. War Crimes Commission invoked the Armenian
      genocide 'precisely . . . one of the types of acts which the modern
      term `crimes against humanity' is intended to cover'' as a precedent
      for the Nuremberg tribunals.

      - The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, an independent federal agency,
      unanimously resolved on April 30, 1981, that the U.S. Holocaust
      Memorial Museum would include the Armenian genocide and has since
      done so.

      - On June 5, 1996, the House of Representatives adopted an amendment
      to House Bill 3540 to reduce aid to Turkey by $3 million until the
      Turkish government acknowledged the Armenian genocide and took steps
      to honor the memory of its victims.

      - President Bush, on April 24, 2004, stated: ``On this day, we pause
      in remembrance of one of the most horrible tragedies of the 20th
      century, the annihilation of as many as 1.5 million Armenians through
      forced exile and murder at the end of the Ottoman Empire.''

      - Despite the international recognition and affirmation of the
      Armenian genocide, the failure of the domestic and international
      authorities to punish those responsible for the Armenian genocide is
      a reason why similar genocides have recurred and may recur in the
      future, and that a just resolution will help prevent future
      genocides.

      - The House of Representatives calls upon the president to ensure
      that the foreign policy of the United States reflects appropriate
      understanding and sensitivity concerning issues related to human
      rights, ethnic cleansing and genocide documented in the United States
      record relating to the Armenian genocide and the consequences of the
      failure to realize a just resolution;

      - And calls upon the president in [his] annual message commemorating
      the Armenian genocide to accurately characterize the systematic and
      deliberate annihilation of 1,500,000 Armenians as genocide.

      General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

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