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Armenian Genocide

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    DrumSteve
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    Godwinned in the first post.


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    alma73
    Registered Users Posts: 247 ✭✭alma73


    Its tragic that 100 years later there are Christian being killed in the same locations because if their religion,. and the world does nothing. Ok.. It wasn't Turkey as a state that Killed the Armenians, However many people who call themselves Turkish were involved.


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    LeinsterDub
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    alma73 wrote: »
    Its tragic that 100 years later there are Christian being killed in the same locations because if their religion,. and the world does nothing. Ok.. It wasn't Turkey as a state that Killed the Armenians, However many people who call themselves Turkish were involved.
    Is it not equally as tragic that people of any religion are being killed of their religion?


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    JPNelsforearm
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    alma73 wrote: »
    Its tragic that 100 years later there are Christian being killed in the same locations because if their religion,. and the world does nothing. Ok.. It wasn't Turkey as a state that Killed the Armenians, However many people who call themselves Turkish were involved.

    Nothing to do with Turkey...the perpetrators just called themselves the Young Turks and were, shock, Turkish...


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    alma73
    Registered Users Posts: 247 ✭✭alma73


    LeinsterDub wrote: »
    Is it not equally as tragic that people of any religion are being killed of their religion?

    Indeed...!!. I can never understand why people can't let other people live as they want.


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    alma73
    Registered Users Posts: 247 ✭✭alma73


    JPNelsforearm wrote: »
    Nothing to do with Turkey...the perpetrators just called themselves the Young Turks and were, shock, Turkish...

    Yes, But it was the Ottoman empire.. However I would not disagree with you personally.


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    Arsemageddon
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    alma73 wrote: »
    Yes, But it was the Ottoman empire.. However I would not disagree with you personally.

    You're splitting hairs there, whatever name they choose to go by at the time was the Turks who were responsible.

    The Germans don't try to pretend the Nazis weren't really German.


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    Ronald Wilson Reagan
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    LeinsterDub wrote: »
    Is it not equally as tragic that people of any religion are being killed of their religion?

    The Christian population of the middle east has been decimated since that period continuing right up today with ISIS.


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    tiger55
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    Ronald Wilson Reagan wrote: »
    LeinsterDub wrote: »
    Is it not equally as tragic that people of any religion are being killed of their religion?

    The Christian population of the middle east has been decimated since that period continuing right up today with ISIS.
    Add your reply here.Syria was once safe for Christians.


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    wakka12
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    People do mention the armenian genocide today, who's to say nobody cares? Maybe its not talked about like the holocaust but neither is the rwandan genocide or any other really. The armenian genocide was on a much smaller scale(though still a huge scale..) only resulting in about 10% of the deaths caused in nazi death camps, it also occurred longer ago and didnt cause the biggest war in human history


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    The_Valeyard
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    wakka12 wrote: »
    People do mention the armenian genocide today, who's to say nobody cares? Maybe its not talked about like the holocaust but neither is the rwandan genocide or any other really. Because they were on a much smaller scale(though still a huge scale..), longer ago and didnt cause the biggest war in human history

    Part of it is also the position of the Jew's today. Quite an influential and powerful Lobby group in certain countries. Compare that with Armenians or Rwandans, who have much less say or clout.


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    getzls
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    JPNelsforearm wrote: »
    alma73 wrote: »
    Its tragic that 100 years later there are Christian being killed in the same locations because if their religion,. and the world does nothing. Ok.. It wasn't Turkey as a state that Killed the Armenians, However many people who call themselves Turkish were involved.

    Nothing to do with Turkey...the perpetrators just called themselves the Young Turks and were, shock, Turkish...
    Add your reply here.

    And Muslims.
    And the slaughter goes on.


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    Arsemageddon
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    getzls wrote: »
    And Muslims.
    And the slaughter goes on.

    What are you on about?


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    Potential-Monke
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    Well, to look on the bright side of everything, there's one benefit* of the Armenian Genocide: System of a Down!

    *Don't want to take away from the atrocity, just trying to find a silver lining


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    alma73
    Registered Users Posts: 247 ✭✭alma73


    getzls wrote: »
    Add your reply here.

    And Muslims.
    And the slaughter goes on.

    Yes the slaughter goes on,


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Ronald Wilson Reagan wrote: »
    Q.“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” Adolf Hitler.
    Wasn't Germany the first country to recognise that Genocide back in the early 20's.

    It was old news by Hitler's time.

    Same way we don't talk about the Rwandan genocide all that much today.


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    Del2005
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    wakka12 wrote: »
    People do mention the armenian genocide today, who's to say nobody cares? Maybe its not talked about like the holocaust but neither is the rwandan genocide or any other really. The armenian genocide was on a much smaller scale(though still a huge scale..) only resulting in about 10% of the deaths caused in nazi death camps, it also occurred longer ago and didnt cause the biggest war in human history

    Uncle Joe is responsible for more deaths than the Nazi's and a few other genocides combined, but since history is written by the victiors he isn't demonised as much as Hitler or any other people who committed genocide.


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