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The French and Unilateralism
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From
27/03/2003 00:32:12
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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26/03/2003 04:59:58
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
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Cetin

>>Only bothered my country name is depicted with a non true scenario

I'm sorry to hear that, especially since the Russian, German, British and American ambassadors as well as the Ottoman administrators who investigated afterwards, all filed reports that are available for review. for example:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0892414588/103-2755386-9471023?vi=glance
"The American consul, Leslie Davis, filed this report with the State Department. It is a detailed eye-witness report from an important place: a lot of caravans of Armenians sent on death marches passed through Harpoot plain. Davis actually goes on horseback to Lake Goljuk and finds thousands of bodies in various states of decay"


How about some foreign Relief Workers who were right there:

"In May 1922, four American relief workers, Major Forrest D. Yowell, Dr. Mark Ward, Dr. Ruth Parmalee and Isabel Harely were all expelled from their posts in Turkey because they too chose to do what is right, they protested the ongoing persecutions. Major Yowell said Armenians in his district were "in a state of virtual slavery," with "no rights in the courts."

Dr. Ward quoted Turkish officials. One Turk declared: "We have been too easy in the past. We shall do a thorough job this time." Another remarked: "Why do you Americans waste your time and money on these filthy Greeks and Armenians? We always thought that Americans knew how to get their money's worth. Any Greeks and Armenians who don't die here are sure to die when we send them on to Bitlis, as we always choose the worst weather in order to get rid of them quicker."

How about the Germans who were Turkish allies at the time, they'd have no reason to lie:

"German Ambassador Johann Bernstorff wrote about "Armenia where the Turks have been systematically trying to exterminate the Christian population."

What about the Turks who were there at the time? Well: The official Turkish gazette Takvimi Vekayi published the verdict of the post-war Ottoman trials of the responsible officials. The Turkish court ruled that the intention of the Ottoman leaders was "the organization and execution" of the "crime of massacre."

I could go on and on and on... and perhaps they are all lying. But then there is another interpretation:

"Those who today deny the Armenian Genocide are resorting to academically unsound revisionism, in order to prevent the moral act of remembering this crime against humanity. In the process, the deniers are doing a disservice to the majority of today's Turkish people."

Regards

JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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