In article <48299@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> ma170saj@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (System Operator) writes:  >    April 24th is approaching, and Armenians around the world >are getting ready to remember the massacres of their family members  Celebrating in joy the cold-blooded genocide of 2.5 million Muslim  people by your criminal grandparents between 1914 and 1920? Did you  think that you could cover up the genocide perpetrated by your fascist grandparents against my grandparents in 1914? You've never heard of  'April 23rd'?     "In Soviet Armenia today there no longer exists a single Turkish soul.   It is in our power to tear away the veil of illusion that some of us   create for ourselves. It certainly is possible to severe the artificial   life-support system of an imagined 'ethnic purity' that some of us   falsely trust as the only structure that can support their heart beats    in this alien land."             (Sahak Melkonian - 1920 - "Preserving the Armenian purity")    During the First World War and the ensuing years - 1914-1920,  the Armenian Dictatorship through a premeditated and systematic  genocide, tried to complete its centuries-old policy of  annihilation against the Turks and Kurds by savagely murdering  2.5 million Muslims and deporting the rest from their 1,000 year  homeland.  The attempt at genocide is justly regarded as the first instance of Genocide in the 20th Century acted upon an entire people. This event is incontrovertibly proven by historians, government and international political leaders, such as U.S. Ambassador Mark  Bristol, William Langer, Ambassador Layard, James Barton, Stanford  Shaw, Arthur Chester, John Dewey, Robert Dunn, Papazian, Nalbandian,  Ohanus Appressian, Jorge Blanco Villalta, General Nikolayef, General  Bolkovitinof, General Prjevalski, General Odiselidze, Meguerditche,  Kazimir, Motayef, Twerdokhlebof, General Hamelin, Rawlinson, Avetis Aharonian, Dr. Stephan Eshnanie, Varandian, General Bronsart, Arfa, Dr. Hamlin, Boghos Nubar, Sarkis Atamian, Katchaznouni, Rachel  Bortnick, Halide Edip, McCarthy, W. B. Allen, Paul Muratoff and many  others.  J. C. Hurewitz, Professor of Government Emeritus, Former Director of the Middle East Institute (1971-1984), Columbia University.  Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern History, Princeton University.  Halil Inalcik, University Professor of Ottoman History & Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, University of Chicago.  Peter Golden, Professor of History, Rutgers University, Newark.  Stanford Shaw, Professor of History, University of California at Los Angeles.  Thomas Naff, Professor of History & Director, Middle East Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania.  Ronald Jennings, Associate Professor of History & Asian Studies, University of Illinois.  Howard Reed, Professor of History, University of Connecticut.  Dankwart Rustow, Distinguished University Professor of Political Science, City University Graduate School, New York.  John Woods, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History,  University of Chicago.  John Masson Smith, Jr., Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley.  Alan Fisher, Professor of History, Michigan State University.  Avigdor Levy, Professor of History, Brandeis University.  Andreas G. E. Bodrogligetti, Professor of History, University of California at Los Angeles.  Kathleen Burrill, Associate Professor of Turkish Studies, Columbia University.  Roderic Davison, Professor of History, George Washington University.  Walter Denny, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts.  Caesar Farah, Professor of History, University of Minnesota.  Tom Goodrich, Professor of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  Tibor Halasi-Kun, Professor Emeritus of Turkish Studies, Columbia University.  Justin McCarthy, Professor of History, University of Louisville.  Jon Mandaville, Professor of History, Portland State University (Oregon).  Robert Olson, Professor of History, University of Kentucky.  Madeline Zilfi, Professor of History, University of Maryland.  James Stewart-Robinson, Professor of Turkish Studies, University of Michigan.  .......so the list goes on and on and on.....   Serdar Argic