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    BOOK: CHILDREN OF ARMENIA

    Foreign Affairs
    January 2010 - February 2010

    Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics

    BYLINE: Robert Legvold
    SECTION: Pg. 151 Vol. 89 No. 1

    Children of Armenia: A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-Long
    Struggle for Justice. By Michael Bobelian. Simon & Schuster, 2009, 320
    pp. $26.00. Much has been written about the deportation and slaughter
    of the Armenians by the Ottomans in 1915, but much less has been
    written about what followed in the years after -- which is odd given
    that the event is so deeply seared into the memories of Armenians
    everywhere and remains an immense burden on modern Armenian-Turkish
    relations. At every turn, Bobelian argues, from the post-World War I
    peace to the failure of the U.S. Congress to pass genocide resolutions
    in the 1990s, the Armenian cause has fallen victim to broken Western
    promises and been sacrificed to the priorities of others. He carefully
    unwinds three entwined threads, starting with the hopes for an
    independent homeland that were dissolved when Armenia was absorbed
    into Soviet Russia. The second thread emerges from the 1920s onward,
    when Ataturk's Turkey made denial of the episode an element of the
    country's emergent nationalism. The third thread is the quest to have
    the events of 1915 recognized as genocide, efforts that have been
    thwarted by U.S. administrations concerned with protecting relations
    with a NATO ally.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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