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William Saroyan,was Born American  of Armenian descent laments Martyr's Day

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William Saroyan,was Born American  of Armenian descent, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film adaptation of his novel The Human Comedy

 

I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia."

 

Ancient Armenian Phrase:

~Meaning: The truth won't stay hidden and will come out.

 

Ms Katie Couric (3min) Armenian Genocide Link

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfsm12TPKpc

 

 

Nota Bene:

Between 1913 and 1923, Armenians, Greeks, Syriacs, and Jews had been lost. They were either exiled with genocides and major massacres or subjected to forced population exchanges.

 

*April 24th commemorates the Death March in "Terror & Tears" of some 1.5 million unarmed men, women and children ~citizens taken out of their ancient 4000 year old homeland into the Syrian desert ~ murdered in the Dar Zor wasteland.

"They fell like rain across the thirsty land, ....        no one heard their tears." ~Charles Aznavor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcSCkBY6-K4

 

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Avatar eddessaknight -
#1
A massive destruction of the Ottoman (Christian) Armenian population in 1915−1916 is among the greatest atrocities committed during the WWI and for sure a first 20th century case of the genocide as up to 1.500.000 ethnic Armenians were executed by the Ottoman authorities and their collaborators. These savage events, until recently, were largely unnoticed; the EU has belatedly recognized but America and Israel, although sympathetic, have still not officially acknowledged the historic genocide :-(
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#2
Open Wound-
“The disaster visiting the Armenians was not a local or isolated event. It was the result of a premeditated decision taken by a central body… and the immolations and excesses which took place were based on oral and written orders issued by that central body”.
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Most probably and unfortunately, the cardinal consequence of the 1915−1916 Armenian Genocide is a fact that this unpunished crime became a pattern for the other genocides in the 20th century. It is clear at least in two cases:

1) The Jewish holocaust during the WWII committed by the Nazi Germany’s NSDAP regime in occupied Europe.

2) The Serb holocaust on the territory of the Independent State of Croatia, 1941−1945 committed by the Ustashi Croat regime.

Namely, in both of these holocaust cases, a cardinal motif for the genocide was the fact that exactly the Armenian genocide became absolutely forgotten, no spoken and unpunished by the international community.[23] In the other words, if very soon after the genocide the world was not remembering the Armenians and not punishing the perpetrators of the genocide it can be very likely to be the same with the Jews and Serbs or with any other nation in the coming future.
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Armenia decries crimes against 'civilisation' on genocide anniversary
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A generational wound that won't heal until justice prevails and the world finally learns from this tragedy thus protecting it's present and future generations to come!

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