(Alleged) Armenian Genocide

There's nothing alleged about it.

Jerry Tarkanian's parents moved to Ohio after surviving it.
Gotta respect Pope Francis for using the word"GENOCIDE" to describe it.

 

They crucified some of them? Holy shit.

 

My grandparents got out of there in time, but my great-grandparents did not. There was a language barrier between my grandmother and me and she never talked about this. My dad didn't either. He never wanted to talk about WWII very much either.

 

Yep. the Western powers basically entered a tacit agreement not to make an issue of it in exchange for Turkey remaining our stable ally in the crazy Middle East.

Armenians are of no importance to us, Turks on the other hand are much needed, so one of the most horrific events in world history--one which should be regarded as a seminal historical event of the 20th Century--basically gets whitewashed from most history books.

 

Sad but true. It's up to the victims' descendants -- the Armenian American population of Los Angeles County's San Fernando Valley is bigger than Armenia itself -- to keep the memory alive.

 

Another red-letter day for people here who know better.

 

The word 'genocide' was coined for the Armenian massacres.

 

You sure?

What is Genocide? The origins and naming of genocide

That's the crux of the Turk arguments.
Everything I have read said the term wasn't coined until the Nazi atrocities.

AGAIN: I want to be clear. Crystal. Fucking. Clear. I'm NOT saying this didn't happen. It did.
The title thread is reference to the Turks' argument that genocide didn't exist before WWII. They claim it was just a hastily thrown together effort to banish, kill, exterminate the Armenians from there lands.
As noted, it's pretty clear the elimination of the Armenian people from the earth was the goal. The word to describe it is just semantics.

 

Third graf of the NYT link in the OP:

The man who invented the word “genocide”— Raphael Lemkin, a lawyer of Polish-Jewish origin — was moved to investigate the attempt to eliminate an entire people by accounts of the massacres of Armenians. He did not, however, coin the word until 1943, applying it to Nazi Germany and the Jews in a book published a year later, “Axis Rule in Occupied Europe.”

 

Hard to argue with this.

 

Coming next week, we'll discuss the Holodomor, another 7 million deaths that 0.00004% of Americans know anything about.