THe unknown genocide

[IRANeAZAD5]

I dunno maybe its me but why dont i ever hear or read about the genocide turkey conducted against the armenian population they once had?

It seems Iran and the country itself Armenia are the only ones that care

(Edited by IRANeAZAD5 at 5:09 am on Oct. 19, 2002)

[Angie]

Because the bulk of Western media doesn't like promoting genocidal situations unless it's somehow directly related to the West. Then they'll ram the story home until millions of Westerners are practically willing to pick up a gun and kill themselves for the likes of the father, the son, and the holy Ashcroft.

[IRANeAZAD5]

how many of you actually knew this happend

be honest

[Angie]

Probably very few, for the reason expressed ABOVE. There might be a few of us, myself included, who had heard of it, but I doubt there are many of us who can stand up and claim we had any spectacular knowledge of the situation unless we had personal links to it, ie. were of one of the cultures involved.

[Kez]

i knew, because im armenian
there is increasing pressure in america to recognise the genocide now.
Many countries now have recognised it.
If you want to join the EU, then u have to recognise the genocide i think now

[Dan Majerle]

i knew of it because of an armenian girl at my school who i hate. It was terrible what occurred though.

[Fabi]

the only thing i knew was that there was a genocide.... i dont know anything else... nothing bout background or when it happened etc...

[IRANeAZAD5]

I first learned about it when the armenians here in iran protested against turkey , also iran teaches alot about about it in its schools,has alot ofbooks on it and has a very nice museum dedicated to it in the armenian section of esfehan which ive been too

[honest intellectual]

I've heard of it, but never ever seen anything about itin the mainstream media.

[truthaddict11]

i know about it from System of a Down. When i told the rest of my class about it in english all of them never heard of it

[Jaha]

gene-what?

when i hear that word, the first thing that comes to mind is columbus & haiti. but that is a totally different story....

is anyone going to elaborate on this armenian genecide or was this thread just to tell everyone that they are stupid?

[guerrillaradio]

Quote: from IRANeAZAD5 on 5:50 am on Oct. 19, 2002
how many of you actually knew this happend

I did, thanks to System of a Down.

[Reuben]

2/3rds of armenians were murdered 1.5 million i think

[Kez]

yes,
and on april 24 1915, 600 intellectuals in Istabul were murdered, and this is the day of rememberence, however the genocide was thru 3-4 years

There is a big armenian diaspora in iran, i went there every summer to see family, in Nadersha and Narmak and Vahidye in Tehran

[IRANeAZAD5]

Tavareeshkamo what do you think of Iran?

[kingbee]

heard of it. the turkish goverment still refuses to recognise that it happened.

[Lefty]

i have a vague idea what happened because of system of a down. "War?" is a good song that is about it.

[Kez]

my thoughts on iran?
the communist party (who put up umbrellas when it rained in moscow) were stupid ****s.
they like all stalinist groups allied with the bourgeusis instead of overthrowing all the capitalists.
They were hiding in holes when the revolution came.
Due to that now iran has a reactionary govt, where communists were killed and executed.
I think there was one famous communist party twat who gave the names of many many of his comrades who were also caught.

I think now is the time to overthrow th reactionary forces in iran and found a Socialist Republic of Iran, not an Islamic one.
Build up and fight comrade, you have nothing to lose but your chains.

[IRANeAZAD5]

i wish it was that easy
the people of iran are completly against violence and thats what it would take to have another revolution. i dunno what to do

[Felicia]

The Canadian Government has recognised it as genocide. I don't know how many others have, especially in the western world.

[MetalGus]

I just recently read about it.

I'm doing a huge homework for college on the Kurds.

I read about the genocide in the Turkey chapters.

During the genocide, a lot of other minorities were killed (including Kurds if I'm not mistaken).

[Kez]

heres a good site
www.24april.org

[Moskitto]

I have an interest in atrocitology, so I knew about this.

I've also found shitloads of anti-armenian websites, most of them refer to Koujalay but there was one which just basically said the Armenians deserved it and lists stuff like all the murders commited by Armenians in the 20th century (yeah, I could list all the murders commited by Turks in the 20th century and say kill the Turks, but I won't).

The Turks had been massecering the Armenians since the mid 19th century, and they were doing it in the 20s, it's just they got really big in 1915.

(Edited by Moskitto at 2:47 pm on Oct. 23, 2002)

[Len]

Tom Morrelo (RATM) and Serj Tankian (SOAD) are having a botth at ozzfest to raise awareness. Unfotunatly its not coming anywhere near me.