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WHY DO WE CARE ABOUT THE
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AFTER 104
YEARS?
By Vic Gerami
Imagine if you came home to find that
your neighbor whom you thought you
knew and trusted had broken into your
house, raped your wife and children, killed
them, taken over your assets and belongings,
claimed your house as his own, only
to deny he did anything when the authorities
arrived.
Imagine if the world knew exactly what he
did but he had a gag-order on the United
States, blackmailing it to never recognize it
properly.
Imagine the pain, sorrow and PTSD you
would endure throughout your life, passing
it to your new wife, children and grandchildren.
THIS is the ARMENIAN GENOCIDE and
THIS is why Armenians scattered throughout
the world continue to be haunted by
the ghosts of their ancestors. The Turkish
government attempted to exterminate its
Christian Armenian subjects in a premeditated,
brutal and systematic fashion, killing
1.5 million out of 2 million innocent people
living in their own ancestral homeland
between 1915 and 1923.
Imagine if he managed to possess your
house and lock you out, blaming you for
what happened and claim that he owned
it all along. Imagine if he continued his
Every President since Ronald Reagan in
assault by continuing to deny his crime and
1981 has sought to placate Turkey through
started a campaign to re-write history, distorting
the facts of the massacre.
the use of euphemisms and refused to
utter the word Genocide. The Armenian
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