Damascus, SANA Armenians around the world\u00a0commemorate the 100th anniversary of the genocide in which one and a half million Armenians\u00a0were killed at the hands of the butchers of the Ottoman Empire on April 24, 1915,\u00a0in a\u00a0most repulsive carnage in human history.<\/p>\n
The mass killing of the Armenian people was\u00a0committed during World War I when the Ottomans annihilated hundreds of Armenian villages\u00a0in the eastern empire in an attempt to change the demography of those areas within the\u00a0Ottoman policy of Turkification that works on uprooting all other ethnicities and
\nnationalities.<\/p>\n
However, the mass murders peaked on April 24, 1915\u00a0when the Turkish government brought together hundreds of prominent Armenian figures in\u00a0Istanbul and executed them in the city’s squares. There followed slaughters and\u00a0genocides against millions of Armenian families who were deported through the desert. The
\nfamilies who escaped the killings managed to take refuge in Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon and\u00a0Syria.<\/p>\n
In its issue on December 15, 1915, the American\u00a0New York Times newspaper said nearly one million Armenians were killed or deported by\u00a0the Ottoman Turks.<\/p>\n
The last chapter of the genocide, however, took\u00a0place between 1918 and 1920 when the Turkish army, ordered by Kamal Ataturk, conducted\u00a0a wide-scale cleansing operations in eastern Anatolia and attacked Armenian villages\u00a0and cities there, before the Armenian State was established on October 29, 1920 and\u00a0joined the Soviet Union.
\nThe Armenian wound, which is still bleeding,\u00a0lingers till today under the failure of international laws to force the Turkish\u00a0government, the successor of the Ottoman butchers, to admit to the crimes and offer an\u00a0official apology to the Armenian people.<\/p>\n
With the perpetrators allowed-by the negligence of\u00a0the influential parties of the international community, to get away with their
\ncrimes, the genocide is breeding more massacres, with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip\u00a0Erdogan given a free hand trying to realize his Ottoman obsessions.<\/p>\n
Five years now into the crisis in Syria, Erdogan\u00a0goes ahead with shedding more Syrian blood, providing unlimited support to the Islamic\u00a0State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organizations and others\u00a0that have been following in the footsteps of Ottomans carrying our ethnic and\u00a0religious cleansing and causing chaos and destruction wherever they take hold.
\n100 years after the brutal genocide against the\u00a0Armenians, the Turkish denial continues, with Turkey claiming that only around
\n300,000 Armenians were killed during WWI and disavowing any connection to the\u00a0systematically committed crimes in challenge of the many documented facts that have been\u00a0consecutively revealed by survivors or by media men who lived the experience firsthand.<\/p>\n
Acknowledgment of the Ottoman massacres has been\u00a0growing worldwide, with Pope Francis of the Vatican using the term “genocide” for the\u00a0first time to describe the mass killings during a mass in Rome on April 12.<\/p>\n
Though angered by the Pope’s statements, the\u00a0Turkish government goes on with its efforts to try to obliterate the historical facts
\nthrough carrying out suppression campaign against Turkish intellectuals and\u00a0journalists who dare to talk about the massacres.<\/p>\n
Despite these attempts, the Armenians around the\u00a0world are adherent to their right and have been annually marking the genocide by staging\u00a0activities and events and launching campaigns seeking an acknowledgement of the\u00a0slaughter.<\/p>\n
This year’s commemoration takes place as a series\u00a0of events under the motto”I Remember, I demand”.<\/p>\n
H. Zain\/ H. Said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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