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April 24, 1915 - Remember the Genocide

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Suffice:
Each year April 24 commemorates the genocide of close to 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey (much of it historical Armenian lands). April 24, 1915 was the day when thousands of intellectuals, prominent men, and wealthy Armenians were rounded up and executed all accross Turkey by the orders of the government. What followed was a forced evacuation of all Armenians from their homeland - a process in which more than a million perished by starvation, exhaustion, and massacres. Let us remember the Genocide and pay respect to those innocent people who were ruthlessly killed. A large portion of my ancestry was killed in the Genocide, so this directly affects me, but every person should be concerned with the Armenian genocide because it is a historical fact that is being denied to this day the Turkish government and is not recognized by the United States as a genocide

Read more @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide

Rest in Peace to all my great grandfathers and great grandmothers who had to suffer through this tragedy

J Bananas:
what the fuck are you serious? why did they do that to them?

Shallow:

--- Quote from: J Bananas on April 24, 2006, 09:04:52 PM ---what the fuck are you serious? why did they do that to them?

--- End quote ---


Maybe they were afraid Armenia would revolt and break free like Greece. Around that time a lot of Greeks were killed too, but most Greeks in Turkey were cast out and forced back into the land Greece had taken back, I think in hopes of overpopulating the country then taking it back. Those Ottomans were crazy.


It used to be called the Armenian Holocaust, but I guess the Armenian presence in wotld powers isn't as strong as the Jewish oneand we wouldn't want to confuse the two.

J Bananas:
that sucks

Sikotic™:
Yeah its very tragic. My grandmother who died a few years ago used to tell me about how she affected by the genocide even though she was very young because many of our family were lost too. It's one of the most gruesome and tragic events in history that is ignored by most people. The fact that the Turkish government and the uS won't acknowledge it is just sickening. I guess our ancestors just vanished off the face of the earth.

The turn out at the Turkish Consulate was pretty good from what I heard. I know parts of the valley was almost dead since everybody closed down.

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