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    Books -- The World
    Thusady, March 11, 2004

    The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response
    Author: Peter Balakian
    Publisher: HarperCollins
    ISBN: 0060198400

    Available from Public Broadcasting One

    The poet and memoirist Peter Balakian has written a passionate,
    well-researched history of the first modern genocide and the various
    American reactions to it. `Who today, after all, speaks of the
    annihilation of the Armenians?' Hitler asked, setting in motion the
    Final Solution for the Jews in Europe. Balakian makes clear the
    continuing costs of the Turkish government's attempts to erase the
    memory of this tragedy-which we must nevertheless remember. As the
    Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet said to himself in a famous poem:

    The Armenian citizen has not forgiven the slaughter of his father in
    the Kurdish mountains. But he loves you, because you also won't
    forgivethose who blackened the name of the Turkish people.

    What this history reveals is that there can be no forgiveness without
    a full accounting of the crime-a reckoning the American government can
    andshould demand.
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