US House OKs recognition of Armenian Genocide?

Question

Genocide is defined as "the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group." There are still Armenians around...hence there wasn't a genocide. How can you recognize something that didn't happen? You want to say a tradegy in Armenian history where hundreds of thousands possibly died...ok. But to call it a genocide when it wasn't? Now that's asking for more pity. Anyone wanna care to explain how the US government or the idiots on the House decided on this? I mean...a tradegy yes...genocide? NO!!!

And to answer all your question, I am not a Turk. Just a person who wants to know why you want a massacre to be recognized as a genocide. You think you're the only people that had crap happen to them? Look around, ppl get crapped on all the time. Similar things happened to the Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, etc. All over the world nations of people were raped, pillaged, murdered, etc...yet its a tradegy...a massacre. Same thing with the Armenians. I find it that your actions of seeking more pity from the rest of the world is pathetic.

Answer 1

"Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers today the Armenian Genocide?" -- Adolf Hitler

Answer 2

Political move, this will upset Turkey which is at this time one of our friends in the war on terror. If this passes then it is in a way insulting the Turks, if not then you insult the Armenians. Either way America looks like the bad guy. Notice how it was worded, "genocide". They could have used other terms that meant about the same thing but this way it makes the current administration look bad, no matter what happens. So now either way it goes America and the Bush administration looks like they either don't care about what happened to the Armenians, or claims Turkey allowed and participated in the genocide of a group. That's how politics works or at lest in today's America, that's why we need to vote the whole lot out of office and vote in regular people who care about this nation and not big business or the labor unions. It's a shame we have reached this point.

Answer 3

Alot of countries including France, Italy and Canada recognize the Armenian Genocide, America is one of the few who dont because America is allies with Turkey.

What the media fails to inform people is that Turks are muslims, Turkey is a Muslim country, they decided in 1915 to commit a Jihad to Christians , that would be the Armenian People who are Christian. Armenia is the first country to accept Christianity btw. The Turks also killed other Christians including Greeks and Assyrians as well. People also call it "the Christian Genocide".

Documented facts show Turks would slice preganat womens stomachs open and slice unborn babies into pieces, hung entire families on crosses and burnt them alive, trapped Christians in Churches and set the church on fire, raped men and women, babies repeatedly. The NY Times in 1915 were one of the first publications to document it.

Alot of the children whose families were killed and raped wound up as orphans. Today the survivors are in their 90s. Something the media has failed to mention as well. People who survived this are still alive.

Turkey denies it ever took place, teach children in school it never happened, it is against the law in Turkey to talk or write about the Armenian Genocide. The punishment is jail. An Armenian journalist was arrested for wrtiting about it and later killed, his son was just found guilty of insulting Turks because he spoke about the Armenian Genocide and has to go to jail for 1 year.

Turks are anti-american. If you do the research you will see more than 70% of the country hates America.

President Bush before he was elected as president called it a Genocide and said if he becomes President he will recognize it. Media has failed to mention that too.

Also unlike other Genocides like American Indian, Australian, and Jewish,-- The Turkish government has never admitted it happened, has never apologized, thus the Genocide continues today.

Does America need another allie like that? Look what happened with Sadaam Hussein.

Answer 4

Problem: Only Nos. 3 & 5 are anywhere near ascertainable. Nos. 2 & 4 are gross exaggerations, the figures pulled out of thin air, or someone's butt. Yours? No.1 flies spitefully in the face of settled fact. No question. Turkey is a member--alongside the Nazis--of the genocide club. The good thing while the Nazis never got the chance, Turkey has not done anything infamous since. That's moral progress.

Answer 5

Firs of all, There was not a Country called Turkey at that time. It was an ottoman empire which was last 700 years.Many people lived under the empire within good conditions.They were happy. When war began armenians take a part with russian and be their spies in Turkey. They were against to Turks and killed many Turks too.I think Russia promise them their own land after the war therefore they did it to Turks.And Turks first started to fight with their enemies inside in their country.Turks accept people killed in both part.Turks were also killed too. It was a war and Turks killed their "inside" enemies first rather than other countries in the war. It was a war and it is what it spoused to be.Would you fight against the other enemies when you have some in your country? Of course not. it is like "cleaning your door first". Many people killed and killed. But it was not all armenians.It was their mistake when being against to country where they have lived.They are treacherous people.They made a big mistake and not accepting results? What would you do to your treacherous enemies? they were also other politicial movements against the ottomon empire. I feel sory for both people but it was A WAR not a normal day.Understood?

Answer 6

Mind you, Bush did veto it. Of course, what was left of the Armenian race has been trying to have this genocide recognized for years. Of course it was deliberate, and of course it was systematic. Why the U.S., land of the free, would wish to ignore the persecution and execution of so many people is beyond me. Why anyone would ignore this is beyond me. That's like calling Rwanda a waste of time and attention. Was Columbine just a few kids with nerf guns and water balloons? Was the Jewish Holocaust just a campfire amongst friends? Were the prison and labor camps of the Soviet Union daycares and fun camps? Is Guantanamo a local soda shop?

The minute we ignore the abuse and death of humanity we stop being humans. Whether or not it was a genocide, people died, and it is a sad world we live in to see death and be so callous to it.

Answer 7

1.5 Armenians were killed. That is a little more than a tragedy.

The Armenian genocide was one of the most massive "root-and-branch" exterminations ever carried out against a defenseless people. In 1915, as World War I raged, the Turkish government (ruler of the Ottoman Empire) decided upon the systematic extermination of most of the male Armenian population, and the forced deportation of the remainder, mostly women, children, and the elderly. The deportation became a death march, with extreme violence and deprivation leading to the death of most of the survivors of the initial gendercide -- as was intended. By the time the exhausted and traumatized survivors reached refuge in neighbouring countries, up to three-quarters of the entire Ottoman Armenian population had been exterminated.

Answer 8

There are still Jews around,but what the Nazis did was genocide.The Turks attempted to exterminate the Armenians,just like the whites in the Americas tried to exterminate the Indians.

Answer 9

The Turkish Foreign Ministry insists that “it has been accused of something that never happened in history.” With such statements coming straight from the horse’s mouth - what kind of diplomacy is possible? Damage control is possible.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry insists that “it has been accused of something that never happened in history.”

The U.S. has mission critical supply routes that run through Turkey and provide crucial strategic support to U.S. troops in Iraq.

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Answer 10

it wasn't a genocide
during WWI, ottomans were fighting with Russia. some Russian agents agreed with Armenians to destroy the ottoman empire inside. so Armenians started to kill babies, old people, women (the ones who didn't go to war). after the war with Russia ended, government decided to move Armenians to another region where they can be less harmful. during this traveling, there were diseases, fighting between people, injuries and so on. in the end about 60 000 people died. years later this number is exaggerated by Armenians and they claim that it was a genocide and Turks killed 1,5 MILLION Armenians. if it was a genocide, what do we call what Armenians did, killing all the innocent babies and women while their fathers/husbands were in war.

note that Armenians lived as a part of ottoman empire.

Answer 11

Get your head out of your ***; it was a genocide. Just becuase a race wasn't interally destroyed and wiped off from the planet, doesn't mean that it wasn't a genocide.

What are there no Jews were you live?

Was there no Holocaust?

Armenian Genocide-yes dipshit; it really DID occur.