Genocide Remembrance Day
Today is Armenia's Genocide Remembrance Day. Between 1915-1923, an estimated 1.2-1.5 million Armenians were were killed. Most were "relocated" and died of harsh conditions (including starvation) or brought to one of the many concentration camps to be burned, drowned, poisoned, or otherwise tortured. The genocide "officially" began on April 24 of 1915, when hundreds of Armenian intellectuals were arrested and (for the most part) executed.
Turkey does not remember this genocide today or on any other day. Turkey has never admitted to a government-sponsored genocide or ethnic cleansing.
Remember genocide today:
Find out more about the Armenian genocide
See how the Armenian genocide relates to gender, at Gendercide Watch.
Listen to Democracy Now!'s segment: The Armenian Genocide: 90 Years Later Turkey Continues to Deny the Extermination of a People
Read a book by Orhan Pamuk, a Turkish novelist who refuses to deny the massacres (often compared to Calvino, Borge, Kafka, Márquez, and Rushdie)
Learn about genocide in general, and genocides happening today the Institute for the Study of Genocide
Join in the campaign to end genocide in Darfur
Form opinions on current issues in the same region, like the Republic of Nagorno-Karbagh, Turkish/Armenian borders, or Kurdistan (one of the most militarzied regions on earth)
Okay, okay. I'm not generally interested in genocide. Obviously I have some people to thank. So...thanks to Q who's passion for such things kicks my ass and will change the world, Su, who thinks the Armenian genocide most be told, even as a bed-time story, and E who got the word out to Calvin about Darfur.
Turkey does not remember this genocide today or on any other day. Turkey has never admitted to a government-sponsored genocide or ethnic cleansing.
Remember genocide today:
Find out more about the Armenian genocide
See how the Armenian genocide relates to gender, at Gendercide Watch.
Listen to Democracy Now!'s segment: The Armenian Genocide: 90 Years Later Turkey Continues to Deny the Extermination of a People
Read a book by Orhan Pamuk, a Turkish novelist who refuses to deny the massacres (often compared to Calvino, Borge, Kafka, Márquez, and Rushdie)
Learn about genocide in general, and genocides happening today the Institute for the Study of Genocide
Join in the campaign to end genocide in Darfur
Form opinions on current issues in the same region, like the Republic of Nagorno-Karbagh, Turkish/Armenian borders, or Kurdistan (one of the most militarzied regions on earth)
Okay, okay. I'm not generally interested in genocide. Obviously I have some people to thank. So...thanks to Q who's passion for such things kicks my ass and will change the world, Su, who thinks the Armenian genocide most be told, even as a bed-time story, and E who got the word out to Calvin about Darfur.