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    Quote Originally Posted by Elms View Post
    Muslims(probably Turks) vandalized the Assyrian Genocide monument in Australia(again). They wrote "Fuck Assyrians, Fuck Armenians, and Fuck Jews" and drew swastikas. They also blamed it on Russians(which makes zero sense).
    Lol, failed trolling. Turks have no interest in using the swastika symbol to 'make a statement'. Do not mistake your own Anglo-Saxon tradition and culture with the Turkish one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elms View Post
    Muslims(probably Turks) vandalized the Assyrian Genocide monument in Australia(again). They wrote "Fuck Assyrians, Fuck Armenians, and Fuck Jews" and drew swastikas. They also blamed it on Russians(which makes zero sense).


    honestly i don t think that russians did that , but probably not the Turks either

    probably some local neo-nazis

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    Quote Originally Posted by Johnlemon View Post
    honestly i don t think that russians did that , but probably not the Turks either

    probably some local neo-nazis
    That wouldn't make any sense. Why single out three of the most hated groups in the region? Especially Assyrians, one of the lesser known groups. This isn't the first time the monument has been defaced and the Turkish community in Australia was very upset when it was originally built.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tonuquq View Post
    Lol, failed trolling. Turks have no interest in using the swastika symbol to 'make a statement'. Do not mistake your own Anglo-Saxon tradition and culture with the Turkish one.
    I'm not trolling and who ever did it, blamed Russians. I really dont believe Russians would have done it, considering they let Assyrians and Armenians settle in their country.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elms View Post
    I'm not trolling and who ever did it, blamed Russians. I really dont believe Russians would have done it, considering they let Assyrians and Armenians settle in their country.
    Arm. are professional liars and agitators. Lobby and slander to promote their falsified genocide tale is the main source of income for them. That is why they don't discuss, they don't debate, they don't care about the facts and documents but prefer only to insult. They also hate everybody in the region. They hate Turks, Russians, Georgians, Iranians and claim rights on the lands they never really ruled. Especially the ones that live in the West, aka the diaspora thugs, there is nothing good about them as human beings. Only hate, fanaticism and bigotry. They even hate their fellow cognates if they do not follow the official diaspora line. They pronounced many Arm. historians, writers as 'traitors' due to that reason. That's why, the 'Muslim-Christian concept' is just their cover to attract the sympathy of the honest Christian people. That's why, Arm. do not have real friends, but only 'enemies' they created and 'fight' against to keep their insignificant nation intact. Because they need the notion of a 'constant threat' to keep their 'hatred and national cults' alive.

    . In Caucasus, a social and economic issue agrees with a tribal one. Bourgeoisie consists exceptionally of Armenians who pose a serious social threat to the local population, and a political threat to the state, as exemplified by some eastern powers, whose sluggishness or negligence cleared the way for Armenian parasitism.
    V. L. Velichko, Caucasus-A Russian Cause and Inter-Tribal Matters, St. Petersburg, 1904


    . Armenian agitators, with few exceptions, are well aware of the inconsistency of their program, do not believe in their cause, but they do work on this truck to thus earn their living. They get allowances from the Armenian London Committee, and, the most important, draw money from naive merchants by means of threats and blackmail, allegedly for the Armenian cause.
    T. Kanadeyev, Essays on Transcaucasian Life, St. Petersburg, 1902

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    Myth of "Armenian genocide" in 1915

    The beginning of World War I and the Ottoman entry into the war on November 1, 1914 on the side of Germany and Austria - Hungary against the Entente powers was considered as a great opportunity by the Armenian nationalists. Louise Nalbandian relates that "The Armenian revolutionary committees considered that the most opportune time to begin a general uprising to achieve their goals was when the Ottoman Empire was in a state of war", and thus less able to resist an internal attack.



    Even before the war began, in August 1914, the Ottoman leaders met with the Dashnaks at Erzurum in the hope of getting them to support the Ottoman war effort when it came. The Dashnaks promised that if the Ottomans entered the war, they, would do their duty as loyal countrymen in the Ottoman armies. However they failed to live up to this promise, since even before this meeting took place, a secret Dashnak Congress held at Erzurum in June 1914 had already decided to use the oncoming war to undertake a general attack against the Ottoman state. The Russian Armenians joined the Russian army in preparing an attack on the Ottomans as soon as war was declared. The Catholicos of Echmiadzin assured the Russian General Governor of the Caucasus, Vranzof Dashkof, that "in return for Russia's forcing the Ottomans to make reforms for the Armenians, all the Russian Armenians would support the Russian war effort without conditions. The Catholicos subsequently was received at Tiflis by the Czar, whom he told that "The liberation of the Armenians in Anatolia would lead to the establishment of an autonomous Armenia separated from Turkish suzerainty and that this Armenia could be made possible with the protection of Russia." Of course the Russians really intended to use the Armenians to annex Eastern Anatolia, but the Catholicos was told nothing about that.



    As soon as Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire, the Dashnak Society's official organ Norizon declared:

    “The Armenians have taken their place on the side of the Entente states is without showing any hesitation whatsoever; they have placed all their forces at the disposition of Russia; and they also are forming volunteer battalions.”

    The Dashnak Committee also ordered its cells that had been preparing to revolt within the Ottoman Empire:

    “As soon as the Russians have crossed the borders and the Ottoman armies have started to retreat, you should revolt everywhere. The Ottoman armies thus will be placed between two fires. If the Ottoman armies advance against the Russians, on the other hand, their Armenian soldiers should leave their units with their weapons, form bandit forces, and unite with the Russians.” 28

    The Hunchak Committee instructions to its organizations in the Ottoman territory were:

    “The Hunchak Committee will use all means to assist the Entente states, devoting all its forces to the struggle to assure victory in Armenia, Cilicia, the Caucasus and Azerbaijan as the ally of the Entente states, and in particular of Russia.”

    And even the Armenian representative in the Ottoman Parliament for Van, Papazyan, soon turned out to be a leading guerilla fighter against the Ottomans, publishing a proclamation that:

    “The volunteer Armenian regiments in the Caucasus should prepare themselves for 6attle, serve as advance units for the Russian armies to help them capture the key positions in the districts where the Armenians live, and advance into Anatolia, joining the Armenian units already there.”

    As the Russian forces advanced into Ottoman territory in eastern Anatolia, they were led by advanced units composed of volunteer Ottoman and Russian Armenians, who were joined by the Armenians who deserted the Ottoman armies and went over to the Russians. Many of these also formed bandit forces with weapons and ammunition which they had for years been stocking in Armenian and missionary churches and schools, going on to raid Ottoman supply depots both to increase their own arms and to deny them to the Ottoman army as it moved to meet this massive Russian invasion. Within a few months after the war began, these Armenian guerilla forces, operating in close coordination with the Russians, were savagely attacking Turkish cities, towns and villages in the East, massacring their inhabitants without mercy, while at the same time working to sabotage the Ottoman army's war effort by destroying roads and bridges, raiding caravans, and doing whatever else they could to ease the Russian occupation. The atrocities committed by the Armenian volunteer forces accompanying the Russian army were so severe that the Russian commanders themselves were compelled to withdraw them from the fighting fronts and send them to rear guard duties. The memoirs of all too many Russian officers who served in the East at this time are filled with accounts of the revolting atrocities committed by these Armenian guerillas, which were savage even by the relatively primitive standards of war then observed in such areas.



    Nor did these Armenian atrocities affect only Turks and other Muslims. The Armenian guerillas had never been happy with the failure of the Greeks and Jews to fully support their revolutionary programs. As a result in Trabzon and vicinity they massacred thousands of Greeks, while in the area of Hakkari it was the Jews who were rounded up and massacred by the Armenian guerillas. Basically the aim of these atrocities was to leave only Armenians in the territories being claimed for the new Armenian state; all others therefore were massacred or forced to flee for their lives so as to secure the desired Armenian majority of the population in preparation for the peace settlement.



    Leading the first Armenian units who crossed the Ottoman border in the company of the Russian invaders was the former Ottoman Parliamentary representative for Erzurum, Karekin Pastirmaciyan, who now assumed the revolutionary name Armen Garo. Another former Ottoman parliamentarian, Hamparsum Boyaciyan, led the Armenian guerilla forces who ravaged Turkish villages behind the lines under the nickname "Murad", specifically ordering that "Turkish children also should be killed as they form a danger to the Armenian nation." Another former Member of Parliament, Papazyan, led the Armenian guerilla forces that ravaged the areas of Van, Bitlis and Mush.



    In March 1915 the Russian forces began to move toward Van. Immediately, on April 11, 1915 the Armenians of Van began a general revolt, massacring all the Turks in the vicinity so as to make possible its quick and easy conquest by the Russians. Little wonder that Czar Nicholas II sent a telegram of thanks to the Armenian Revolutionary Committee of Van on April 21, 1915, "thanking it for its services to Russia." The Armenian newspaper Gochnak, published in the United States, also proudly reported on May 24, 1915 that "only, 1,500 Turks remain in Van", the rest having been slaughtered.



    The Dashnak representative told the Armenian National Congress assembled at Tiflis in February 1915 that "Russia provided 242,000 rubles before the war even began to arm and prepare the Ottoman Armenians to undertake revolts", giving some idea of how the Russian-Armenian alliance had long prepared to undermine the Ottoman war effort. Under these circumstances, with the Russians advancing along a wide front in the East, with the Armenian guerillas spreading death and destruction while at the same time attacking the Ottoman armies from the rear, with the Allie's also invading the Empire along a wide front from Galicia to Iraq, the Ottoman decision to deport Armenians from the war areas was a moderate and entirely legitimate measure of self-defense.



    Even after the revolt and massacres at Van, the Ottoman government made one final effort to secure general Armenian support for the war effort, summoning the Patriarch, some Armenian h4emhers of Parliament, and other delegates to a meeting where they were warned that drastic measures would be taken unless Armenians stopped slaughtering Muslims and working to undermine the war effort. When there was no evident lessening of 'the Armenian attacks, the government finally acted. On April 24, 1915 the Armenian revolutionary committees were closed and 235 of their leaders were arrested for activities against the state. It is the date of these arrests that in recent years has been annually commemorated by Armenian nationalist groups throughout the world in commemoration of the "massacre" that they claim took place at this time. No such massacre, however, took place, at this or any other time during the war. In the face of the great danger~ which the Empire faced at that time, great care was taken to make certain that the Armenians were treated carefully and compassionately as they were deported, generally to Syria and Palestine when they came from southern Anatolia, and to Iraq if they, came from the north. The Ottoman Council of Ministers thus ordered:

    “When those of the Armenians resident in the aforementioned towns and villages who have to be moved are transferred to their places of settlement and are on the road, their comfort must be assured and their lives and property protected; after their arrivals their food should be paid for out of Refugees Appropriations until they are definitely settled in their new homes. Property and land should be distributed to them in accordance with their previous financial situation as well as their current needs; and for those among them needing further help, the government should 6ııild houses, provide cultivators and artisans with seed, tools, and equipment.”

    And it went on to specify:

    “This order is entirely intended against the extension of the Armenian Revolutionary Committees; therefore do not execute it in such a manner that might cause the mutual massacre of Muslims and Armenians.”

    “Make arrangements for special officials to accompany the growths of Armenians who are being relocated, and make sure they are provided with, food and other needed things, paying the cost out of the allotments set a side for emigrants.”

    “The food needed by the emigrants while traveling until they reach their destinations must be provided ... for poor emigrants by credit for the installation of the emigrants. The camps provided for transported persons should be kept under regular supervision; necessary steps for their well-being should be taken, and order and security assured. Make certain that indigent emigrants are given enough food and that their health is assured by daily visits by a doctor... Sick people, poor people, women and children should be sent by rail, and others on mules, in carts or on foot according to their power of endurance. Each convoy should be accompanied by a detachment of guards, and the food supply for each convoy should be guarded until the destination is reached... In cases where the emigrants are attacked, either in the camps or during the journeys, all efforts should be taken to repel the attacks immediately...”

    Out of the some 700,000 Armenians who were transported in this way until early 1917, certainly some lives were lost, as the result both of large scale military and bandit activities then going on in the areas through which they passed, as well as the general insecurity and blood feuds which some tribal forces sought to carry cut as the caravans passed through their territories. In addition, the deportations and settlement of the deported Armenians took place at a time when the Empire was suffering from severe shortages of fuel, food, medicine and other supplies as well as large-scale plague and famine. It should not be forgotten that, at the same time, an entire Ottoman army of 90,000 men was lost in the East as a result of severe short- ages, or that through the remainder of the war as many as three or four million Ottoman subjects of all religions died as a result of the same conditions that afflicted the deportees. How tragic and unfeeling it is, therefore, for Armenian nationalists to blame the undoubted suffering of the Armenians during the war to something more than the same anarchical conditions, which afflicted all the Sultan's subjects. This is the truth behind the false claims distorting historical facts by ill devised mottoes such as the "first genocide of the twentieth century," which Armenian propagandists and terror groups try to revive to justify the same tactics of terror today which brought such horrors to the Ottoman Empire during the last century.

    https://no-genocide.com/post/37

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    Ara Babloyan, the Speaker of National Assembly of Armenia, thanked the Egyptian Ambassador today for the recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide by Parliament of Egypt.

    Egyptian Ambassador to Armenia Tarek Ibrahim Muhammad Maati visited the Armenian Parliament in connection with the end of his mission in Armenia, the press service of the National Assembly of Armenia reported.

    In his turn, the ambassador said that he will remain forever a friend of Armenia, and that he leaves Armenia with very warm memories. According to him, relations between Armenia and Egypt are deepened also thanks to the Armenian community in Egypt, which plays a huge role in the development of the country.

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    Quote Originally Posted by frdfgcg View Post
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    This guy (fdrfgcg) filled an entire page of BS here. He's definitely guilty of dumping spam trash into Armenian Section. I'm glad he was banned. The banning thread identified him as a troll, and he definitely trolled around the forum.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tonuquq View Post
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    Toninquq is another troll whom spammed the Armenian Section with Turkish BS: He posted mountains of genocide denial crap here. His genocide denial mindset is in lockstep with the governments of Turkey and Azerbaijan, both of whom have poured a fortune of money into their intrusive genocide denial politics. I'm glad he's also gone.

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    UN Sends a Stunning Letter Questioning Turkey on the Armenian Genocide

    BY HARUT SASSOUNIAN, PUBLISHER, THE CALIFORNIA COURIER · JUNE 25, 2019

    http://www.thecaliforniacourier.com/...QtlkIKLmfC6ars

    Thirty four years ago, the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities adopted a report acknowledging the Armenian Genocide as a case of genocide. Until recently, there has been no other activity at the UN on this issue. Unexpectedly, on March 25, 2019, a surprising letter was sent to Ambassador Sadik Arslan, Turkey’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, by three UN entities: Bernard Duhaime, Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances; David Kaye, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression; and Fabian Salvioli, Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence.

    The joint UN letter asked the Turkish Ambassador to provide answers within 60 days to the following seven questions:

    “1. Please provide any information and/or comment(s) you may have on the allegations: …violations attributable to Turkey in relation to the tragic events that affected the Armenian minority from 1915 to 1923, and their consequences for the population concerned.

    2. What policies have been put in place by your Excellency’s Government to respond to these allegations?

    3. What measures has Turkey taken to establish the facts, including the fate or whereabouts of Armenians who were subjected to forced internal displacement, detention, extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances during the period of 1915-1923?

    4. What measures have been taken to ensure the right of victims and of society as a whole to know the truth about these events, and to ensure the right of victims to justice and reparations for the damage suffered?

    5. What measures have been taken to locate, insofar as possible, the bodies of Armenians who died as a result of these events?

    6. Please provide information about the reasons for the adoption of the 2017 legislation preventing lawmakers from making certain expressions. Please explain how this is compatible with international human rights law, in particular with article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

    7. Please provide detailed information about the cases in which Article 301 of the Criminal Code has been applied to punish individuals for statements made alleging crimes against Armenians.”

    The joint UN letter described in detail the atrocities committed against Armenians “from 1915 to 1923” by “the Ottoman Empire and its succeeding Turkish Republic [which] implemented a policy of mass relocation of the Armenian minority living in the eastern part of the country. Hundreds of thousands (estimates range between 600,000 and 1,500,000) of persons belonging to that minority were subject to that policy, which resulted in widespread violence against that population. Their forced deportation reportedly started in March 1915 mainly in Anatolia but also in other parts of the country. Armenians were expelled from their ancestral lands. On the night of 24th April 1915, hundreds of political and intellectual leaders were arrested in Constantinople and then transferred to other places. As a result, Armenian elites disappeared almost completely. This was followed by a systematic policy targeting the entire Armenian population in each province and in each Vilayet, the official objective of which was to displace by force the Armenian population from the eastern provinces of Anatolia to Aleppo and camps in the Syrian desert. Armenians were subjected to forced marches. Most of them allegedly died progressively from exhaustion, starvation, diseases or from massacres, and in most cases their remains were abandoned. Upon arrival, the few surviving people were detained in camps in conditions which may have amounted to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment; most of them were subsequently killed. The process persisted through 1923. It is alleged that these actions could constitute enforced disappearances to the extent that:

    (i) Armenians in Turkey were subjected to arrests, detentions, or abductions or were otherwise deprived of their liberty;

    (ii) These acts are reportedly attributable to officials or different branches or levels of government;

    (iii) The Government has not disclosed so far the fate or whereabouts of the persons concerned.”

    The UN letter also criticized Turkey’s denial: “It is also reported that Turkey not only refuses to acknowledge these events, but also intentionally engages in denial and obstruction of the truth about the fate or whereabouts of the victims…. While we do not wish to prejudge the accuracy of these allegations, we wish to express our concern at the reported denial, and ensuing lack of progress in establishing the truth and ensuring justice for the forcible deportation of Armenians between 1915 and 1923, which resulted in massive suffering, ill-treatment and deaths. The lack of progress in establishing and acknowledging the relevant facts, not only affects the dignity of victims and their descendants, but can also hinder the possibility of initiating measures aimed at preserving the memory and establishing the truth.”

    On May 17, 2019, within 60 days of the UN request, the Turkish Ambassador responded with a three-page letter stating that the UN letter “will be left unanswered by the Government of Turkey.” Amb. Arslan further stated that “my authorities were rather baffled by the communication” which he described as “ill-intended and politically motivated.”

    Besides denying the statements contained in the UN letter, Amb. Arslan also quoted the UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon and his spokesman Farhan Haq claiming that the UN had never taken a position on events that took place before the UN was established. Both the Secretary General and his spokesman are wrong because the UN had set a special day to commemorate the Jewish Holocaust which had occurred before the UN was founded in 1945. Furthermore, I interviewed Ban-Ki Moon’s spokesman Farhan Haq and asked him about the 1985 UN Sub-Commission’s Genocide Report which had acknowledged several genocides, including the Armenian Genocide, all of which had taken place before the UN was established. Haq told me that he was aware of the UN Sub-Commission’s Genocide Report, but he was referring to the lack of acknowledgment by the UN General Assembly.

    In addition, the UN authors attached to their letter an annex quoting from the International Humanitarian Law which stated that: “Principle 2 of the updated Set of Principles for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights through Action to Combat Impunity establishes the inalienable right of all persons to know the truth about past events concerning the perpetration of heinous crimes and about the circumstances and reasons that led to them. Full and effective exercise of the right to the truth provides a vital safeguard against the recurrence of violations. Principle 4 stipulates that victims and their families have the imprescriptible right to know the truth about the circumstances in which violations took place and about the victims’ fate.”

    Finally, Amb. Arslan repeated the same untruth about Armenia not responding to a letter from Turkey in 2005 proposing “to establish a joint commission consisting of historians and other experts to study the events of 1915.” This is a lie. Armenia did respond, suggesting that the proposed commission review all outstanding issues between the two countries, not just the Armenian Genocide. Turkey was the one that never responded.

    As a next step, now that the Armenian Genocide issue has been raised at the UN once again, it is incumbent on the Republic of Armenia to formally place the UN letter and the Turkish denialist response on the agenda of the UN Human Rights Council and pursue compensation and justice for the million and a half victims of the Armenian Genocide.

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