From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast,alt.activism.d
Followup-To: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: JEWISH SCHOLARS PRESENT: The Armenian genocide of the Turkish people.
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 92 21:52:42 EDT
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <1992Sep22.085924.22122@mont.cs.missouri.edu> harelb@math.cornell.edu (MAP/Activ-L Autoposter) writes:

>    Davld Barsamian is a radio producer, journalist and lecturer based
>    in Boulder, Colorado. He is Director of Alternative Radio, an
>    independent production company. Alternative Radio programs are

Is this a figment of your imagination or an Armenian propaganda movie 
script? Millions of Turks and Kurds lost grandfathers, grandmothers, 
aunts and uncles at the hands of Armenian genocide squads, terrorists 
and insurgents trying to establish an independent state in an area where 
the Armenians were in the overwhelming minority. Armenian government got 
away with the genocide of 2.5 million Turkish men, women and children and 
is enjoying the fruits of that genocide. You, and those like you, will not 
get away with the genocide's cover-up.

Source: Stanford J. Shaw, on Armenian collaboration with invading Russian
armies in 1914, "History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey (Volume
II: Reform, Revolution & Republic: The Rise of Modern Turkey, 1808-1975)."
(London, Cambridge University Press 1977). pp. 315-316.

"In April 1915 Dashnaks from Russian Armenia organized a revolt in the city 
 of Van, whose 33,789 Armenians comprised 42.3 percent of the population, 
 closest to an Armenian majority of any city in the Empire...Leaving Erivan 
 on April 28, 1915, Armenian volunteers reached Van on May 14 and organized 
 and carried out a general slaughter of the local Muslim population during 
 the next two days while the small Ottoman garrison had to retreat to the
 southern side of the lake."

   In a speech addressed to the Armenian Congress in Petersburg on May 24,
   Tchalkouchian emphasized the commitment of the Armenians to the Allied
   cause:

"...The French charmingly call us 'our little allies'. It may be that we
 have made a small contribution to the World War. There is no doubt that 
 our status is that of a 'great ally'. The whole of the Armenian nation
 was involved in the war... right from the start, our sympathy was completely
 for the Allied Powers. Among these, Russia, to whom Armenians had been 
 loyal throughout history, came first and foremost."

"The Armenians greeted the Russians with ringing bells and with their 
 priests dressed in their ceremonial robes. In this war, too, the Armenian
 people took their place beside the Russians...The war broke out volunteers
 came from everywhere, from Armenia in Eastern Anatolia, from Egypt under
 Turkish rule, from the non-Russian areas of Rumania; all these people who
 were Ottoman subjects, familiar with Anatolia, gathered together and put
 themselves at the service of the Russian Empire." 

The criminal acts of the Armenian Dictators come directly
under the scope of the Convention on Genocide adopted by the
General Assembly of the United Nations on December 8, 1948,
containing the following provisions:

The Contracting Parties, having considered the declaration made 
by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its Resolution
95 (1) dated December 11, 1946, that genocide is a crime under
international law, contrary to the spirit and aims of the United
Nations and condemned by the civilized world;

Recognizing that in all periods of history genocide has inflicted
great losses on humanity; and

Being convinced that, in order to liberate mankind from such odious
scourge, international cooperation is required;

Members agree as hereinafter provided:

Article 1. The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether
committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under 
international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.

Article 2. In the present Convention genocide means any of the
following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or
in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as 
such:

A) Killing member of the group;
B) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
C) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life 
   calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole 
   or in part;
D) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
E) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group;

Article 3. The following acts shall be punishable:

a) Genocide
b) Conspiracy to commit genocide
c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide
d) Attempt to commit genocide.

Article 4. Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts
enumerated in Article 3 shall be punished, whether they are
constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private
individuals.

Had the Convention on Genocide existed before the Armenian 
massacres of the Turks and Kurds, it would probably have been 
difficult for the Armenian organizations and its responsibles
to start murdering of civilian, defenseless, faithful Ottoman
citizens, children and women, (GENOCIDE AND ATTEMPT TO GENOCIDE),
to make plans to exterminate, as they have done also to Urartus
and Jews, faithful Ottoman citizens (CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT GENOCIDE), 
to incite Armenians to armed revolt against the legal authority
and to commit Genocide, (DIRECT AND PUBLIC INCITEMENT TO COMMIT
GENOCIDE).

Serdar Argic

                     'This war quickly developed into one of extermination. 
                      We closed the roads and mountain passes that might 
                      serve as ways of escape for the Tartars [Turks] and 
                      then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
                                                       (Ohanus Appressian)

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