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    Turkey denies 1915 Genocide to cover up 1895 Armenian massacres?

    November 2, 2013 - 15:44 AMT


    PanARMENIAN.Net - The 1st genocide of the 20th century - the Armenian
    Genocide - was preceded by the 1895 Turkish massacres of Armenians,
    journalist Hervé Roubaix said in his article published at Dreuz.info.

    "For centuries the Turks simply lived like parasites upon these
    overburdened and industrious people. They taxed them to economic
    extinction, stole their most beautiful daughters and forced them into
    their harems, took Christian male infants by the hundreds of thousands
    and brought them up as Moslem soldiers. I have no intention of
    describing the terrible vassalage and oppression that went on for five
    centuries; my purpose is merely to emphasize this innate attitude of
    the Moslem Turk to people not of his own race and religion---that they
    are not human beings with rights, but merely chattels, which may be
    permitted to live when they promote the interest of their masters, but
    which may be pitilessly destroyed when they have ceased to be useful.
    This attitude is intensified by a total disregard for human life and
    an intense delight in inflicting physical human suffering which are
    not unusually the qualities of primitive peoples," the journalist
    quotes the United States ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Henry
    Morgenthau.

    Back then, Roubaix said, 2 000 000 Armenians had to leave their
    historic lands or die. This is what Europe has now in store for Jews
    in Palestine. `In 1894 to 1896, up to 400 000 Christian Armenians were
    killed in massacres orchestrated by special regiments of Sultan Abdul
    Hamid II, known as the Red Sltan.

    In 1895, 300 000 Armenians, the richest and most educated citizens of
    the Ottoman Empire, were savagely murdered. Formally, massacres were
    meant to undermine `Armenian nationalistic moods,' with Armenian
    political parties stirring Hamid's concern. According to the article,
    Hamid aimed to smother their activity, but contrary to Young Turks did
    not seek to exterminate the whole nation.

    The article quotes representatives of France, Great Britain and Russia
    who slammed the Abdul Hamid II -period massacres as genocide. The
    article further quoted the U.S. President Grover Cleveland who stated
    in the December 2, 1895 address to Congress, `reports of the Armenian
    Christians' massacres, fanatic animosity against them causes fear for
    the safety of people.'

    `When in 1896, U.S. demanded that Abdul Hamid II stop the persecution
    of Armenians, the former, like his successor Erdogan, denied the
    charges, instead accusing Bulgaria and Russia of causing large-scale
    inflow of Muslim refugees, ' the article said.

    And this is what signaled the onset of `Turkey for Turks', the article
    concluded.

    http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/172129/




    From: A. Papazian
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