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Victims, mostly Jewish children, o f a pogrom in Yekatorinoslav
(today's Dnipropetrovsk)
Raphael Lemkin, father o f the artificial word "genocide"
was bom in 1900 in the town o f Bezvodne in Belarus.
The most important factor determining the character o f
his earlier life was the massive and well-planned series o f
persecutions o f the Jews that took place in the Russian
Empire o f the time. The motivation for these persecutions
was not only religious but also purely economic. Envy
has always been a strong motivating force behind perse­
cution, as have religious convictions and fear o f those
who are intellectually superior.
The year 1915 saw the outbreak o f a large-scale uprising,
supported by Russia, o f Ottoman Armenians in eastern
Anatolia. At home, St Petersburg pursued a sophisticated
policy o f misinformation, propagating throughout Russia
reports o f atrocities in the Ottoman Empire that were
either pure fiction or vastly exaggerated. Never, however,
did they waste a single word on the sufferings undergone
by Ottoman Muslims - predictably, because they, along
with Protestant sects from the USA , were the ones who
had been responsible for these sufferings. Their propa­
ganda was intended to distract public opinion from their
own ill deeds.
Like all his compatriots, the young Raphael Lemkin had
no other information about what was going on in the
Ottoman Empire than that propagated by the Russian
misinformers. He was shocked by what he read.
When, a few years later, an Annenian mercenary killer by
the name o f Soghomon Tehlirian (*Kem akh 1896 - JSan
Francisco 1960) assassinated Talaat Pasha on an open
street, this outrage clearly met with the approval o f
Raphael Lemkin, whose story is told as follows by
sources from the Armenian side:
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"After graduating from a local trade school in Bialystok
he began the study o f linguistics at the John Casimir
University in Lwow.
It was here Lem kin became interested in the case of
Soghomon Tehlirian, an Arm enian who assassinated
the form er Turkish M inister Interior Talaat Pasha in
Berlin, Germ any on M arch 15, 1921 as an act of
vengeance for his role in orchestrating the Armenian
Genocide. Lem kin thought it inconsistent for it to be a
crim e to kill a man but not a crim e to orchestrate the
destuction of an entire people, genocide."
The United States Ambassador Henry Morgenthau with his
closest collaborators. Recognizable in the second row above
the naval attache is one o f Morgenthau's informants, Agop
Andonian, probably a relative o f the forger Aram Andonian,
who fabricated Talaat's "murder orders".
This statement is self-defeating. There is no evidence
whatsoever that either Talaat or Enver Pasha ever gave
orders for killings to take place: all the "documents" pre­
sented to this effect have long since been proved to have
been forgeries made by Aram Andonian, Johannes
Lepsius, or Henry Morgenthau, who has also been shown
to have been entirely under the influence o f the
Armenians.