Monday, October 8

Turkey and the Armenian Genocide

When I first wrote about the Armenian Genocide, i had a huge number of foaming emails from Turks who furiously complained about my article. And now you have the US Congress voting on the measure. I quote:

The bill, which will be put to the House of Representatives foreign affairs committee on Wednesday, enjoys majority support and comes at a time when ties between Washington and Ankara are under severe strain.
The bill has 226 co-sponsors. It calls on Mr Bush “to accurately characterise the systematic and deliberate annihilation of 1.5m Armenians as genocide”. The massacres were carried out by Ottoman troops beginning in 1915, before the creation of the republic of Turkey. Turkey rejects characterisation of the deaths as genocide and takes diplomatic and other measures against countries that adopt such a stance.

See here for some potential repurcussions on USA, but hey, great news indeed! Just see my previous post on genocide! I also found it very damning that EIGHT ex-Secretary of State's thought that protesting against the Congressional attempt to identify and recognise this genocide was correct. This is the US Government for you, my friends, this is the US government for you. A government who is willing to oversee genocide for short term benefits. So what happened to the moral compass, the strong protestations of the advantages of western culture and morals? Esphoks!

Eight former US secretaries of state – including Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright – have written to Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, to ask her to prevent a vote on the issue.

All this to be taken with a grain of piquant salt!!!

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