Around the World People Join Armenians and Remember the Armenian Genocide and Demand Justice...
A Bouquet of photos from around the Global Village...
WASHINGTON, DC - The Armenian Genocide Museum of America (AGMA) announcedtoday the opening of a state-of-the-art online museum (www.armeniangenocidemuseum.org
People place flowers... in Yerevan, Armenia
People wait to lay flowers at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial, on April 24, 2015, in Yerevan.
People praying in istambul... in the memeory of the Armenian Genocide victims...
People in Istanbul paring and demanding justice...
Demonstrators hold candles and pictures of Armenian victims during a commemoration for the victims of mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, in Istanbul April 23, 2015.
People in Jerusalem... Remember and demand...
Still in Jerusalem...
...And in Tehran, Iran...
Still in Tehran...
Tehran... People Remember and Demand...
People gather to pay their respects during a ceremony at the Memorial of the Armenian Genocide in Marseille, France, on April 24, 2015.
...Still in Marseille, France...
...Still in Marseille, France...
In Beirut, Lebanon...
Still in Beirut, Lebanon....
Marching in Beirut, Lebanon... to the Armenian Martyrs Cathedral in Antelias, Lebanon...
The Memorial Chapel in Antelias, Lebanon...
In Moscow...
Still in Moscow...
Putin in Yerevan, Armenia...
"There is no and cannot be any justification for mass murder of people,” said Putin, who has not shied away from calling the events of 1915 to 1922 genocide, despite vocal objections against the term from Turkey.
The Eiffel Tower in Paris went dark today in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide...The lights of the tower were put out at 22 CET today, according to the decision of Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo.
The Colloseum in Rome goes dark in Memeory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide...
In Los Angeles... 130,000 march for Armenian Genocide and for Justice...and Human values...
...And amid the civil war and Islamist-Jihadists atrocities in Syria...
A participant holds a candle and a sign during a memorial march by armenians in front of the Brandenburg Gate after an Ecumenical service marking the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces, at the cathedral in Berlin April 23, 2015.
March in Brussels. #ArmenianGenocide We remember!
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Where GREED Rules... Morality and Humanity Give In and Big Brothers wallow in LIES...
Read CNN's report...
For 7th year in a row, Obama breaks promise
to acknowledge Armenian genocide...
Washington
(CNN)This
week is the 100th anniversary of what many historians acknowledge as
the Armenian genocide -- the Turkish massacre of an estimated 1.5
million Armenians
And
it's also the seventh year in a row President Barack Obama has broken
his promise to use the word "genocide" to describe the
atrocity.
It's
a moral position taken by Pope Francis, actor George Clooney and even
by the Kardashians.
On
the 2008 campaign trail, Obama promised to use the word "genocide"
to describe the 1915 massacre by Turks of Armenians -- a pledge he
made when seeking Armenian-American votes.
Back
then, he held up his willingness to call it a "genocide" as
an example of why he was the kind of truth-telling candidate the
nation needed.
In
2006, after the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia was asked to resign for
using the term Armenian genocide, then-Sen. Obama hammered the Bush
administration for not taking a stand.
"The
Armenian genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a
point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an
overwhelming body of historical evidence," he said.
But
that was then.
And
now, as was the case with Bush, Obama regards Turkey -- the only
Muslim majority country in NATO -- as a more crucial ally than
Armenia. Turkey has the second-largest military in NATO, behind only
the U.S., and is a crucial ally when it comes to Syria, ISIS, Iran
and other Middle East issues.
And
Turkey denies this history.
"We
cannot define what happened in 1915 as a genocide," Turkish
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told CNN on Tuesday.
In
her Pulitzer Prize-winning book about genocide, Obama's current
Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power hammered U.S. policy
makers for not acknowledging or acting to stop such atrocities.
"No
U.S. president has ever made genocide prevention a priority, and no
U.S. president has ever suffered politically for his indifference to
its occurrence. It is thus no coincidence that genocide rages on,"
she wrote.
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In Qamishli.. they could even hear the guns from Islamist-Jihadists held territories close by...
Thousands march in Toronto, Canada...
And also in many other cities around the globe...
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Read the White House Statement...
Statement
by the President on Armenian Remembrance Day
This
year we mark the centennial of the Meds Yeghern, the first mass
atrocity of the 20th Century. Beginning in 1915, the Armenian
people of the Ottoman Empire were deported, massacred, and marched
to their deaths. Their culture and heritage in their ancient
homeland were erased. Amid horrific violence that saw suffering on
all sides, one and a half million Armenians perished.
As the horrors of 1915 unfolded, U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Sr. sounded the alarm inside the U.S. government and confronted Ottoman leaders. Because of efforts like his, the truth of the Meds Yeghern emerged and came to influence the later work of human rights champions like Raphael Lemkin, who helped bring about the first United Nations human rights treaty. Against this backdrop of terrible carnage, the American and Armenian peoples came together in a bond of common humanity. Ordinary American citizens raised millions of dollars to support suffering Armenian children, and the U.S. Congress chartered the Near East Relief organization, a pioneer in the field of international humanitarian relief. Thousands of Armenian refugees began new lives in the United States, where they formed a strong and vibrant community and became pillars of American society. Rising to great distinction as businesspeople, doctors, scholars, artists, and athletes, they made immeasurable contributions to their new home. This centennial is a solemn moment. It calls on us to reflect on the importance of historical remembrance, and the difficult but necessary work of reckoning with the past. I have consistently stated my own view of what occurred in 1915, and my view has not changed. A full, frank, and just acknowledgement of the facts is in all our interests. Peoples and nations grow stronger, and build a foundation for a more just and tolerant future, by acknowledging and reckoning with painful elements of the past. We welcome the expression of views by Pope Francis, Turkish and Armenian historians, and the many others who have sought to shed light on this dark chapter of history. On this solemn centennial, we stand with the Armenian people in remembering that which was lost. We pledge that those who suffered will not be forgotten. And we commit ourselves to learn from this painful legacy, so that future generations may not repeat it. |
Whether
you call it genocide or mass murder, 1.5 million Armenians were
killed by Turks 100 years ago following the breakup of the Ottoman
Empire and the rest of the remnants marched to the deserts of Syria... where the Islamists-Jihadists are massacering people and Christian minorities at present...
The Islamist-fascists of Turkey are the allies of the Islamist-Jihadists of the Middle East...
NO WAY TURKEY IS A RELIABLE PARTNER OF HUMANITY and NO WAY THEY SUPPORT HUMAN VALUES AND NORMS...
Today, the newly anointed saints — the Armenian church just
canonized the victims of the Armenian Genocide en masse — are being remembered around
the Global Village, with world leaders converging in Yerevan, Armenia, for the
commemoration.
But,
Debate continues over the use of the word “genocide,”
with Turks refusing, Obama avoiding and playing with words and relying on his rhetorical semantics and
Germans finally accepting after a long anticipated debate... but pressure is mounting for Turkey to come to terms with its
founding fathers’ misdeeds... and as long as the Islamist-fascists of Turkey do not accept their responsibility... and as long as the Big Brothers of the world allow these fascists to get away with murder, albeit 100 years ago..., the arrogance of Islamists-Jihadists and Islamist-fascist will continue... and "WE THE PEOPLE..." will pay dear price for it...
WHEN GREED AND PROFIT TRAMPLE HUMAN VALUES AND HUMAN NORMS... WHEN BIG BROTHERS NEGATE THE MORES OF HUMAN VALUES... THE OUTCOME WILL BE ISLAMIST-JIHADIST VIOLENCE... Behadings, destroying centuries old cultures... and mass murders...
As long as human values are denied and the past atrocities and the Armenian Genocide are negated... as long as the Holodomor - the forced famine in Ukraine- is marginalized... as long as the genocides in Cambodia and in Rwanda and in Darfur are not forcefully and IN PRACTICE condemned... other genocides will follow...
The U.S. and ALL the civilized world MUST condemnt the Islamist-fascists who perpetrated the ARMENIAN GENOCIDE... and demand retribution and reparations...
The Islamist-fascists of Turkey invaded Cyprus and for decades are occupying nearly half of the island... They should be kicked out of Cyprus... about 40% of present day Turkey is inhabited by Kurds and they should have FULL DEMOCRATIC rights and autonomy...
Fascism in Turkey is a stain on the Global Village...
The Genocide of Armenians and The Genocide of Assyrians and the Genocide of the Pontic Greeks must be condemns and Turkey must pay for these crimes against humanity...
And if GREED and PROFIT will prevail and human values will be negated and genocides denied, then the Islamist-Jihadists of the Middle East will continue in their inhuman march and the Middle East will stay in turmoils and the massacres will continue...
STOP THE DENIAL OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE...
TURKEY SHOULD COME TO TERMS WITH ITS HISTORY AND GENOCIDAL DEEDS...
Otherwise human turmoil will continue and grief will erupt like the volcanoes of Chili...
Calbuco volcano eruption
Mother nature is powerful and spectecular...
Ashes... after 40 years of silence...
Static lightening from the volcano...
Lightening continues... and demonstrates the power of Mother Nature...
Power and Beauty...
Spectacular...
...and Indeed Powerful...
We have only one world... we have to take care of it...
Big Brothers should not compromise the human morals in their pursuit for Profit to satisfy their GREED...
And the universe in all its glory... looking at human folly... and GREED and PROFIT...
In memory of the Armenian Genocide...
Be inspired... Get Involved...
Yell NEVER AGAIN...
and
Make a Difference...
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