This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.
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The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.
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Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers today the Armenian Genocide
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You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.
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If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.
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Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.
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Armenia, Armenia
After the great flood Noah’s ark landed
on Mount Ararat, says the Bible.
Nowadays, the snow-capped summit
of the mountain soars over Yerevan.
Although the dormant volcanic cone
of Ararat lies south of the border,
in Turkish Anatolia,
the view of the mountain dominates
the skyline of the Armenian capital.
Most of the territory
that was once part of historic Armenia
belongs to Turkey today.
Under the yoke of the Muslim Ottomans,
the aspirations of the Christian Armenians
to obtain autonomy clashed
with the dreams of their rulers
to establish a pan-Turkish Empire.
In the 19th century the government
of the crumbling Ottoman Empire
started a campaign to wipe out
the Armenian population.
It perpetrated a genocide,
which reached its peak
during the First World War.
In 1908 an extremist wing
of the Union and Progress Party,
the Young Turks, came to power
in the Ottoman Empire.
They rejected demands for ethnic autonomy
and launched a systematic state organized attack
on the Armenian community.
It began on April 24,1915,
when the Ottoman authorities arrested
some 250 Armenian leaders in Istanbul
and murdered them.
Then armed Turks began uprooting men,
women and children from their homes.
Rape and murder became a commonplace.
Depriving them food and water, Turkish squads
forced Armenian communities to march
through the deserts of Syria where they died
of dehydration, starvation and exhaustion.
Hundreds of eyewitnesses
from all over the world recorded
and documented state-supported massacres.
In 1915, for example, Leslie Davis,
the American consul in Kharput, reported
that 10,000 bodies of murdered Armenians
had been discovered near Lake Göeljuk.
In the same year Giacomo Gorrini,
the Italian consul in Trabzon, testified:
“I saw thousands of innocent women
and children placed on boats,
which were capsized in the Black Sea”.
Armenians call the mass slaughter
of their people Metz Yeghérn, the calamity.
Historians estimate the number of those
who lost their lives
in the great Armenian tragedy at 1.5 million.
The government of Turkey, however,
refuses to admit that a state organized genocide
took place.
In the fall of 2001 Pope John Paul II
paid a visit to the former Soviet Republic
of Armenia. He laid a rose at the eternal flame
in the memorial of Yerevan
and prayed for the victims:
The lament that rises from this place,
The call of the dead from the depth of Metz Yeghérn,
The cry of innocent blood
That pleads like the blood of Abel,
Like Rachel weeping for her children
Because they are no more.
poem by Paul Hartal
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The Armenian Grief
The Armenian grief is a shoreless sea,
An enormous abyss of water;
My soul swims mournfully
On this huge and black expanse.
It prances at times – enraged,
And looks for the shore – blue and serene,
Where sometimes, it wearily dives deeply
Looking for fathomless rest;
But it will never reach the bottom of this sea.
It will never reach the shore.
In the Armenian grief – on the black expanse
My soul lives and mourns…
poem by Hovhannes Toumanian
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Genocide No More
The morrow, the morrow, the morrow
But what comes tomorrow
Too much to be coped
Not true it is hoped
Could there be more madness
Would there be more sadness
Lest there be more gore
And death to hail more
Oh why, oh why, oh why
Hast so many to die
The reason not their fault
Their futures put on halt
It shouldn’t have been so
Innocents have such foes
Longed are moments of Grace
Let not lives be erased
Cry out, cry out, cry out
The ghosts they do shout
The wronged be avenged
Righteousness on hinge
Merciful concessions
For the just life lessons
Beyond ends of the crowd
Compassion be allowed
Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye
These words beg of thee
Trying hard not to preach
Let all hearts be reached
For when hatred rules
The results just so cruel
Neither out nor in
The adverse hath no friend
Can there, can there, can there
Ever come to world heirs
A future certainty
Even for you and for me
Alas, let it be true
Before life is through
Let not genocides repeat
Against evil defeat
Dedicated to those in the world who care enough to make a stance in ridding the world of future evils of Genocide.
In commemoration of the 91st anniversary of the Christian Holocaust, a.k.a.
The Armenian Genocide.
April 24,2006.
Written by international book author, screenplay writer, Brenda Terzian.
poem by Brenda Terzian
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A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.
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He's looking for the donkey while sitting on it.
You are as many a person as languages you know.
Because the cat was given no meat, he said it was Friday.
Before the fat one slims, the slim one will die.
If you speak too much, you will learn too little.