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

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eddessaknight — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 22:56:21 GMT

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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eddessaknight — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 03:10:22 GMT

Armenia decries crimes against 'civilisation' on genocide anniversary

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eddessaknight — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 00:07:16 GMT

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 ver... [ More ]

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eddessaknight — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:21:19 GMT

“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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eddessaknight — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:48:07 GMT

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 :-(... [ More ]

Original Blog Entry: William Saroyan,was Born American of Armenian descent laments Martyr's Day

eddessaknight — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:37:53 GMT

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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