why armenians laying about genocide?
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You would not expect the Armenians to come out and say yes we killed a bunch of Azerbajanis because we don't like them.  Just like the Turks won't say they killed Armenians because they don't like them.  The whole area is made up of violent groups from each country, and they are xenophobic and hate the other ethnic groups.  The governments all support the violent people hoping that they will be able to gain more power and land.
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You may be referring to the Armenian genocide.  1915 -1917.  Reports estimate over 1 million Armenians were sentenced to labor camps and were killed or staved to death in the Ottoman empire.
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Nobody wants to examine their own sins.  Look how many years it took before school books admitted some of the horrible things the U.S.Calvary did to Native Americans.  And it is not just the Armenians.  Turkey and Greece are "allies" but are constantly at each others throat.  As long as one people believe they are better than anyone else in the world, there will be this stupid, mass destruction.
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its part of the propaganda of diabolization. They need those people to be the "bad" ones so that they can justify commiting atrocities against them. Its a vicious circle that only ends when we end global poverty. Guess what we could have done for the same price as the Iraq war?
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Did Alex B GED just claim that the GOP "solved a genocide" in Iraq in his post? I think the phrase is "created a genocide". Iraq officials now claim 150,000 Iraqis have been killed by insurgents. Gosh, the Iraqis must be SO thankful we are there!
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Mr Clinton stated that the reason he was sending troops was because Milosevic was committing genocide.  He was right and it was stopped.  Mr. Bush claimed he was sending troops because Saddam had WMD's, was starting a nuclear weapon program, had ties to AL Quada and was involved in 9-11.  All those things were wrong and now thousands of people are dead and the killing continues.  If Mr. Bush would have stated he was sending troops because Saddam was committing genocide, then he would have been right, also.  That's the difference: being right vrs. being wrong.
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Because you can't compare with what the french did in Algeria as you put it, not even to what happened to the american indians. \n\nTurkey and thurkish people are constantly denying the Armenians genocide so it is perfectly wise to put pressure on Turkey by a law from the Congress. Let's hope it will be voted.
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it ended in 1945 and a genocide is an act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.
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Prefer them in what way?\n\nTurks can't owe up to the genocide they committed against the Armenians. So the Greeks by default.
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Not really, at least not towards its own citizens. I mean, genocide is mass-murder of people, and except for Iraq (where we've got insurgents attacking us the whole time), that's just not happening.\n\nTo niteboy : While our government is corrupt (on both political parties), we're not mass-murdering anyone (yet...)\nAnd just the fact we can post these things without getting in trouble shows we have some basic amount of freedom.
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I don't think Christians are discriminated in secular Turkey (can't say the same for other Muslim countries). Muslims simply think that themselves will go to heaven and many Christians won't be able to... So they feel sad for them, but they don't hate, nor discriminate (in Turkey). \n\nThere might be some fanatic idiots in every community, but those exceptions should not break the general rule.\n\nI used to share my home with an Armenian at uni in Istanbul. He was just one of us. There are many Armenian schools, churches, communities in Turkey, and they live as they like. \n\nBut there are no Turkish schools etc in Armenia for a good reason. Armenia recently occupied the Karabagh region of Azerbaijan killing & deporting ethnic Azerbaijani (Turks). Of course the unbiased Christian media do not mention about it at all. Currently Azerbaijan is a divided country because of the occupied central lands.\n\nAlthough Ottoman Turks had built several mosques in Athens, they are all destroyed after Greeks gained their independence. There is none left. There are severe human rights issues in the north of Greece which has been home to the Muslims and Jews since 14th century. This story can go on and on... We are human, and not perfect...
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As a 100% Beirutsi Hye, I'm embarrassed for our people by your question - I can only hope you're at least hayastantsi or halebtsi...or mixed with some other blood in you.\n\nAs the First Christians, we Armenians ought to know better than to make light of God and what He means to us as individuals and as a nation.  \n\nAhmot.
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are you talking about opinions or facts? \nalso maybe it's b/c of so many people pointless being murdered, and it's a touchy topic.
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I am assuming that the anti-Serbian war was the rampant genocide in the Balkans promulgated primarily by the Serbian dictator and his criminal cohorts.  Conscience made them support the first, prudence made them exclude the second.
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Well... in my opinion, it's a very difficult decision to make. Azeris pretty much hate Armenians... passionately. The tension between the two groups is similar to the Middle-Ages fear of the Gypsies or the 1920s fear of the Jews (in Germany).\n\nI don't think it would be a wise thing for an Armenian to live in Azerbaijan; I don't think their life would be comfortable at all.\n\nAzerineruh chen siroum hayerin. Yete ourish tegher nayess, kuh tesnes vor sagh Azeri-neruh Hayeroo spaneloo masin en khosoum. It's really sad... and pathetic, if you ask me.\n\nIt's xenophobia. The Azeri government does nothing to educate their people about coexistance and equality. But I'm not going put on the facade of a thick-headed patriot. Armenia's government still has a lot of work to do, itself, to educate all the people of equality, too. Pretty much everyone in that region of the world is highly intolerant. :-(\n\n\nNo, no... Gohar. He (Craig) wasn't hating on the Armenians. I think he was just suggesting that if you want to live in Azerbaijan peacefully... you should think like they do. You should join Islam, hate the Christians, Jews, and everyone else..., and you should hate America with a passion. Turkey should be your lover country and you should really... really... REALLY hate the Jews above all. He's not saying that this is the standard Armenian image; he's saying it's the stereotypical Azeri/Azerbaijani image. They hate the Armenians, Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Christians, and America. Above all, they hate the Jews.\n\nIf you want to live in Azerbaijan peacefully and become one with them... you might as well accept their own identity as your own and forget all about ever BEING an Armenian. I know, it's really sad and childish to say... but I don't think the Azerbaijanis will ever accept the Armenians for who they are. If you don't want to be harrassed, don't tell them that you're Armenian (which is a sad thing to see...).\n\nYou never know...; there might be some Azeris who like the Armenians. It's rare and possibly non-existant... but there might still be a possibility that there are some Azeris who ARE tolerant. In the mean time, all I can tell you is... an Armenian in Azerbaijan is not a good thing at all...\n\nIt's the equivalent of putting a mouse in front of a snake. :-(\n\nYete oozoomes khosas, email me.
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The Armenian Genocide (also known as the Armenian Holocaust or the Armenian Massacre) is a term which refers to the forced mass evacuation and related deaths of hundreds of thousands or over a million Armenians, during the government of the Young Turks from 1915 to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire. Several facts in connection with the event are a matter of ongoing dispute between parts of the \ninternational community and Turkey. Although it is generally agreed that events said to comprise what is termed the Armenian Genocide did occur, the Turkish government rejects that it was genocide, on the alleged basis that the deaths among the Armenians, were not a result of a state-sponsored plan of mass extermination, but from the result of inter-ethnic strife, disease and famine during the turmoil of World War I.\n\nDespite this thesis, most Armenian, Western, and an increasing number of Turkish scholars believe that the massacres were a case of genocide. For example, most Western sources point to the sheer scale of the death toll. The event is also said to be the second-most studied case of genocide, and often draws comparison with the Holocaust. To date 24 countries, as discussed below, have officially recognized and accepted its authenticity as Genocide.\n\nIn 1914, before World War I, there were an estimated two million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the vast majority of whom were of the Armenian Apostolic faith, with a small number of the Armenian Catholic and Protestant faiths. While the Armenian population in Eastern Anatolia (also called Western Armenia) was large and clustered, there were large numbers of Armenians in the western part of the Ottoman Empire. Many lived in the capital city of Istanbul.\n\nUntil the late 19th century, the Armenians were referred to as millet-i sadika (loyal nation) by the Ottomans. This meant that they were living in harmony with other ethnic groups and without any major conflict with the central authority. However the Christian Armenians were subject to Islamic dhimmi laws, which gave them fewer legal rights than Muslim fellow citizens. The Tanzimat gave more rights to the minorities in the middle of the 19th century. However, the long ruling Sultan Hamid suspended the constitution early in his reign and ruled as he saw fit. Despite pressure on the Sultan by the major European countries to treat the Christian minorities more gently, abuses only increased.\n\nThe single event that started the chain is most likely the Russian victory over the Ottoman Empire in the War of 1877-78. At the end of this war the Russians took control over a large part of Armenian territory (including the city of Kars). The Russians claimed they were the supporters of Christians within the Ottoman Empire and now they were clearly militarily superior to the Ottomans. The weakening control of the Ottoman government over its empire in the following 15 years led many Armenians to believe that they could regain independence from them.
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First of all, let me say this, what a wonderful testimony!!\nAnd then, to answer your question, most of it is politics. From humanitarian point of view, it's better for a few people that are guilty of ruining a lot of people's lives and making the innocent suffer, it's better for the clique to suffer than a whole nation to be enslaved to their practice. Yeah! Such people like Saddam and those whose business is terror - that is directed towards the innocent and the vulnerable, yeah, such people deserve to be exterminated. \nSome deny the role of the Americans in Iraq because they are simply incapable of walking a mile in your shoes. They exercise their freedom by saying what they think even if it's stupid what they say. And let me tell you there's a whole school of stupid people.  I hope that answers your question somehow. And thanks again for your courage and honesty in posting this question. God bless you!