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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477374" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Armenia, Armenia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">After the great flood Noah’s ark landed<br>on Mount Ararat, says the Bible.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nowadays, the snow-capped summit<br>of the mountain soars over Yerevan.<br>Although the dormant volcanic cone<br>of Ararat lies south of the border, <br>in Turkish Anatolia, <br>the view of the mountain dominates<br>the skyline of the Armenian capital.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most of the territory<br>that was once part of historic Armenia<br>belongs to Turkey today.<br>Under the yoke of the Muslim Ottomans, <br>the aspirations of the Christian Armenians<br>to obtain autonomy clashed <br>with the dreams of their rulers <br>to establish a pan-Turkish Empire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the 19th century the government<br>of the crumbling Ottoman Empire<br>started a campaign to wipe out <br>the Armenian population. <br>It perpetrated a genocide, <br>which reached its peak <br>during the First World War.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In 1908 an extremist wing <br>of the Union and Progress Party, <br>the Young Turks, came to power<br>in the Ottoman Empire.<br>They rejected demands for ethnic autonomy<br>and launched a systematic state organized attack<br>on the Armenian community. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It began on April 24,1915, <br>when the Ottoman authorities arrested<br>some 250 Armenian leaders in Istanbul<br>and murdered them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then armed Turks began uprooting men, <br>women and children from their homes.<br>Rape and murder became a commonplace. <br>Depriving them food and water, Turkish squads<br>forced Armenian communities to march <br>through the deserts of Syria where they died <br>of dehydration, starvation and exhaustion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hundreds of eyewitnesses<br>from all over the world recorded <br>and documented state-supported massacres.<br>In 1915, for example, Leslie Davis, <br>the American consul in Kharput, reported<br>that 10,000 bodies of murdered Armenians<br>had been discovered near Lake Göeljuk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the same year Giacomo Gorrini, <br>the Italian consul in Trabzon, testified: <br>“I saw thousands of innocent women<br> and children placed on boats, <br>which were capsized in the Black Sea”.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Armenians call the mass slaughter <br>of their people Metz Yeghérn, the calamity. <br>Historians estimate the number of those<br>who lost their lives<br>in the great Armenian tragedy at 1.5 million. <br>The government of Turkey, however, <br>refuses to admit that a state organized genocide<br>took place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the fall of 2001 Pope John Paul II <br>paid a visit to the former Soviet Republic <br>of Armenia. He laid a rose at the eternal flame<br>in the memorial of Yerevan<br>and prayed for the victims: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lament that rises from this place, <br>The call of the dead from the depth of Metz Yeghérn, <br>The cry of innocent blood<br>That pleads like the blood of Abel, <br>Like Rachel weeping for her children<br>Because they are no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Hartal">Paul Hartal</a><div class=q>
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Nowadays, the snow-capped summit
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Although the dormant volcanic cone
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