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Ignorant how? There is very little 'one sided' about any political or global situation discussions on this forum. Seems as though your posts to this topic have no real commentary aside from telling others not to speak. As you said you have no side in the discussion, so why comment to others about them being one sided? Your response to Drex, who posted a great deal of factual information, was, IMO, ridiculous. Your other comments about not wanting to hear about opinions based on research is ridiculous as well. The genocide you spoke of occurred between 1915-1918 and early 1920's, so unless you are roughly 90 years old, you didn't have a first hand account of any of this, simply researched it as you denounce others from commenting to. And in fact the allies, including the USA, required the Ottoman Empire to hold the Young Turks accountable to war crimes.
Any issue as far as Israel is concerned in relation to Armenia should be taken up with Turkey who still dismisses the notion of a genocide in Armenia at all, much like Iran doubting the Jews in Germany.
Armenian Genocide:
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The atrocities committed against the Armenian people of the Ottoman Empire during W.W.I are called the Armenian Genocide. Genocide is the organized killing of a people for the express purpose of putting an end to their collective existence. Because of its scope, genocide requires central planning and a machinery to implement it. This makes genocide the quintessential state crime as only a government has the resources to carry out such a scheme of destruction. The Armenian Genocide was centrally planned and administered by the Turkish government against the entire Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. It was carried out during W.W.I between the years 1915 and 1918. The Armenian people was subjected to deportation, expropriation, abduction, torture, massacre, and starvation. The great bulk of the Armenian population was forcibly removed from Armenia and Anatolia to Syria, where the vast majority was sent into the desert to die of thirst and hunger. Large numbers of Armenians were methodically massacred throughout the Ottoman Empire. Women and children were abducted and horribly abused. The entire wealth of the Armenian people was expropriated. After only a little more than a year of calm at the end of W.W.I, the atrocities were renewed between 1920 and 1923, and the remaining Armenians were subjected to further massacres and expulsions. In 1915, thirty-three years before UN Genocide Convention was adopted, the Armenian Genocide was condemned by the international community as a crime against humanity.
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Last edited by Wagner; 07-30-2006 at 03:52 PM.
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