it's Genocide Remembrance Day today.
2007-04-24 01:30:27 · 14 answers · asked by Erina♣Liszt's Girl 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
April 24 1915 is when the armenian Genocide started. 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks. They were dragged in the desserts, body parts cut, women raped, children killed, heads cut, testicles cut, breasts cut. It was horrendous murder. Yet Turkey denies that was genocide. Historically the whole Turkey was Armenian ancestral homeland during Roman times. Why all of a sudden these people left their wealth, homes, fortunes and homeland and spread all over the world?
Armenian Genocide is a fact, justice will prevail.
2007-04-24 07:16:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I've heard of the Armenian genocide. I've been living with it since I was born. I am french and 4 of my great parents left Armenia and arrived in France after 1915. They were young and ran away from their home. Their parents were killed. And 'killed' is a soft word. So the genocide is part of me. My grand parents have always talked about it. And I think that everybody should know what happened there. It is the first genocide of the XXth century. But unfortunately not the last.
2007-04-24 02:07:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I have heard of the Armenian Genocide, and I have seen many other people asking or discussing the same event here on Yahoo Answers.
2007-04-24 01:44:17 · answer #3 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, the heavy metal band System of A Down all have Armenian roots, and a lot of their songs criticise the covering up and forgetting of the mass murders and atrocities committed during the genocide.
2007-04-24 04:48:18 · answer #4 · answered by Kierfo 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Emphatically - Yes.
In college I had the opportunity to read a book entitled "Forty Days on Musa Dagh" by Franz Werfel.
If anyone is looking for a well written, but fictionalized, account of the actual event, this is the book to read.
Of course, the 6,000 or so Armenian defenders held out for 53 days, not 40.
2007-04-24 01:51:12 · answer #5 · answered by cianshay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A film called 'Ararat' directed by Atom Egoyan explored the issues of loss and identity that still exist among those two or three generations removed from the 1915 Armenian holocaust. It won an award at Cannes, and i remember it as a very sombre film, but interesting simply because it exposed something i knew nothing about, and made it clear that forgotten things need to be remembered.
2007-04-24 02:31:27 · answer #6 · answered by Biddles 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, although I am ashamed to say I am embarrassingly ignorant of the specifics. It was the Turks wasn't it? Just after the First World War? I know the Nazis used it as a basis for their own genocide
2007-04-24 01:42:50 · answer #7 · answered by Caffeine Fiend 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes. I have an Armenian friend, although I didn't know it was remembrance day - thank you, I will email her now!
2007-04-24 01:33:08 · answer #8 · answered by f0xymoron 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know what you mean, and it was of course an enormous crime, but the title is ambiguous. It should be stated clearly that it was the Turks who committed it against the Armenians, unless this is verboten in these mealy-mouthed politically correct days.
2007-04-24 04:56:29 · answer #9 · answered by Canute 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
yes i heard of it but I have never met any armenians.
2007-04-24 06:35:45 · answer #10 · answered by ~Soul Socks~ aka <Spiderwebs& 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋