APRIL 24
Commemorating Armenian Genocide
In Armenia the commemoration monument and park...All day long more than a million visitors...
In Beirut,Lebanon...
And I with memories of the past and hoping for a brighter future....and
PEACE ON EARTH...
....And here it is...My heart Bleeds...and I will rite and I will dream...of Peace on Earth...
The Turkish government wanted "Turkey for Turks"...
Armenian soldiers in the Ottoman army were arrested and disarmed and ...executed.
Not long after that, on April 24th, a group of 250 Armenian intellectual leaders of the community
were rounded up and shipped off to a camp where they were killed.
Not long after that, on April 24th, a group of 250 Armenian intellectual leaders of the community
were rounded up and shipped off to a camp where they were killed.
Turkey had killed off the Armenian soldiers and the cultural elites. All that remained was to order the
rest of the population to comply with a relocation order that was essentially a death sentence. Most
of the Armenians were forced to march for sixty days and many did not survive the trip.
rest of the population to comply with a relocation order that was essentially a death sentence. Most
of the Armenians were forced to march for sixty days and many did not survive the trip.
Like the Nazis to Jews, many Armenians were also transported via rail. And, also like the
Nazis, theTurks forced their victims to purchase tickets for the ride to their own extermination.
Nazis, theTurks forced their victims to purchase tickets for the ride to their own extermination.
The accounts of the atrocities committed against the Armenians is as brutal and disgusting
as any you have heard about from Hitler’s attempts to exterminate the Jews from Germany
and the world. Small children and old people were marched over mountains and in circles, without food and water, literally until they died. Young Christian girls were raped by the Turkish soldiers. There are reports that many killed themselves after being raped. The barbaric treatment of the Armenian women went even further.
as any you have heard about from Hitler’s attempts to exterminate the Jews from Germany
and the world. Small children and old people were marched over mountains and in circles, without food and water, literally until they died. Young Christian girls were raped by the Turkish soldiers. There are reports that many killed themselves after being raped. The barbaric treatment of the Armenian women went even further.
Crucified Armenian women in the area of the Der-es-Zor in the Syrian desret.
In her memoir, Ravished Armenia, Aurora Mardiganian described being raped and thrown into a harem (which agrees with Islam’s rules of war). Unlike thousands of other Armenian girls who were discarded after being defiled, she managed to escape. In the city of Malatia, she saw 16 Christian girls crucified: “Each girl had been nailed alive upon her cross, spikes through her feet and hands, only their hair blown by the wind, covered their bodies.” .
by a German officer...
The “60 Minutes”,an American TV program, segment also includes a chilling video shot on the banks
of the Euphrates River where it is believed 450,000 of the victims perished. In fact, the remains of
the Armenians are so prevalent in the area that all you need to do is scratch the sand along the river
banks and you will find pieces of human bones that have been there for 98 years.
of the Euphrates River where it is believed 450,000 of the victims perished. In fact, the remains of
the Armenians are so prevalent in the area that all you need to do is scratch the sand along the river
banks and you will find pieces of human bones that have been there for 98 years.
Today, April 24, marks the “Great Crime,” that is, the Armenian genocide that took place under
Turkey’s Islamic Ottoman Empire, during and after WWI. Out of an approximate population of two million, some 1.5 million Armenians died. If early 20th century Turkey had the apparatuses and technology to execute in mass—such as 1940s Germany’s gas chambers—the entire Armenian
population may well have been annihilated. Most objective American historians who have studied the question unequivocally agree that it was a deliberate, calculated genocide:
Turkey’s Islamic Ottoman Empire, during and after WWI. Out of an approximate population of two million, some 1.5 million Armenians died. If early 20th century Turkey had the apparatuses and technology to execute in mass—such as 1940s Germany’s gas chambers—the entire Armenian
population may well have been annihilated. Most objective American historians who have studied the question unequivocally agree that it was a deliberate, calculated genocide:
More than one million Armenians perished as the result of execution, starvation, disease, the harsh environment, and physical abuse. A people who lived in eastern Turkey for nearly 3,000 years [more than double the amount of time the invading Islamic Turks had occupied Anatolia, now known as “Turkey”] lost its homeland and was profoundly decimated in the first large-scale genocide of the twentieth century. At the beginning of 1915 there were some two million Armenians within Turkey; today there are fewer than 60,000…. Despite the vast amount of evidence that points to the historical reality of the Armenian Genocide, eyewitness accounts, official archives, photographic evidence, the reports of diplomats, and the testimony of survivors, denial of the Armenian Genocide by successive regimes in Turkey has gone on from 1915 to the present.
A still frame from the 1919 documentary film Auction of Souls, which portrayed eye witnessed events from the Armenian Genocide, including crucified Christian girls.
Skull of Armenians burnt alive in the village of Ali-Srnan.
Mass grave containing the bodies of killed Armenians. From Deutsche Welle, dw-world.de 24.04.2005
...............and More..................
War to END ALL wars
Put differently, silence is always the ally of those who would commit genocide.
Adolf Hitler rationalized his genocidal plans, which he implemented some three decades later, when he rhetorically asked:
“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
Armenian civilians, escorted by armed Ottoman soldiers, are marched through Harput(known as
Kharpert by Armenians, the kaza of the Mamuret-ul Aziz), to a prison in the nearby Mezireh (Ottoman: Mazraa, present-day Elâzığ), April 1915
Kharpert by Armenians, the kaza of the Mamuret-ul Aziz), to a prison in the nearby Mezireh (Ottoman: Mazraa, present-day Elâzığ), April 1915
Armenians one hour before they were murdered. One can see they were business men yet the Turks
are putting out propaganda that they were plotting against them and had weapons hidden in their homes. This is their single excuse for the genocide they committed.
are putting out propaganda that they were plotting against them and had weapons hidden in their homes. This is their single excuse for the genocide they committed.
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| Genocide: The Ottoman Turks murdered more than 1.5million Armenians between 1915 and 1917 |
A Turk teasing starving children with bread!!!!!
Is it a joke...?
Chillingly, Adolf Hitler used the episode to justify the Nazi murder of six million Jews, saying in 1939: “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
Yet, carried out under the cover of war, the Armenian genocide remains shrouded in mystery – not least because modern-day Turkey refuses to acknowledge the existence of its killing fields.
Now, new photographs of the horror have come to light. They come from the archives of the German Deutsche Bank, which was working in the region financing a railway network when the killing began.
Armenia, an ancient Christian civilization spreading out from the eastern end of the Black Sea, stood in
its way.
its way.
At the turn of the 20th century, there were two million Christian Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. Already, 200,000 had been killed in a series of pogroms – most of them brutally between 1894 and
1896.
1896.
In November 1914, the Ottoman Empire entered World War I against the Allies and launched a disastrous military campaign against Russian forces in the Caucasus. It blamed defeat on the Armenians, claiming they had colluded with the Russians.
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| Turkey refuses to acknowledge the killing fields |
- Some died from torture in custody, while many were executed in public places. The resistance poet, Daniel Varoujan, was found disembowelled, with his eyes gouged out.
- One university professor was made to watch his colleagues have their fingernails and toenails pulled out, before being blinded. He eventually lost his mind, and was let loose naked into the streets.
- There were reports of crucifixions, at which the Turks would torment their victims: “Now let your Christ come and help you!”
- Johannes Lepsius, a German pastor who tried to protect the Armenians, said: “The armed gangs say their main task as raiding and looting Armenian villages. If the men escaped their grasp, they would rape the women.”
- At later war crimes trials, several military officers testified that the word “deportation” was used to mean “massacre” or “annihilation”.
An American diplomat described the deportations or death marches: “A massacre, however horrible the word may sound, would be humane in comparison with it.”
Most people think the Armenian Genocide was purely about Turks killing Armenians.
However, a prime motivator for the killing of 1.5 million Armenians living in Turkey was
greed and the redistribution of wealth. The Ottoman Turkish rulers wanted to take
possession of the property belonging to its wealthy Armenian minority.
They succeeded...
However, a prime motivator for the killing of 1.5 million Armenians living in Turkey was
greed and the redistribution of wealth. The Ottoman Turkish rulers wanted to take
possession of the property belonging to its wealthy Armenian minority.
They succeeded...
- Many of the Armenian churches not destroyed by the Turks were converted to Mosques. Some Armenian churches (including the sacred Aktamar site) are profitable enterprises employed by Turkey as part of its thriving tourism industry.
Close to two million Armenian Christians were slaughtered by the Muslims — that cannot be erased,
that cannot be removed. The Armenian genocide was the Ottoman government’s systematic
extermination of its Armenian minority (and other relgious minorities) from their historic homeland in
what is now Turkey. Other Christian groups, the Assyrians, the Greeks and other minorities, were
also targeted for extermination.
that cannot be removed. The Armenian genocide was the Ottoman government’s systematic
extermination of its Armenian minority (and other relgious minorities) from their historic homeland in
what is now Turkey. Other Christian groups, the Assyrians, the Greeks and other minorities, were
also targeted for extermination.
German and Turkish officers pose with the skulls of Armenian victims
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Holy Resurrection Church
A church built in the desert,the site of mass graves, to commemorate the Genocide...
Now the Jihadists in Syria have captured it and removed the crosses and desecrated it...
And here we are....Now the Jihadists in Syria have captured it and removed the crosses and desecrated it...
...And Here YOU are....
THINK...and...
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