April 24... Armenians Commemorate the Armenian Genocide... Committed by Modern Day Turkey

All Wars Kill... 

There is NO just war...

Fights are the last stage of any dispute... and it is the inhuman way of solving problems! 

The animal instinct takes over... and dehumanizes both sides... and ALL... and then we fight... go to war... and kill...

But it is written... "Thou shall not kill." And their are NO qualifiers to it... there are no ifs or buts... added to the commandment...

Today is April 24... The Remember the ARMENIAN GENOCIDE... when 1.5 million Armenians were marched to their death in the Syrian desert...

As civilized humans we should ban wars... The military budgets should feed the hungry and provide shelter to the homeless...

GO and SEE "THE PROMISE"... and remember the 1.5 million Armenians who were massacred... The first GENOCIDE of the 20th century...

• In 1944, Raphael Lemkin created the term genocide in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe.

• The term genocide was coined in a 1944 book; it has been applied to the Holocaust and many other mass killings including the Armenian genocide, the genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americas, the Greek genocide, the Assyrian genocide, the Serbian genocide, the Holodomor, the 1971 Bangladesh genocide, the Cambodian genocide, the Guatemalan genocide, and, more recently, the Bosnian Genocide, the Kurdish genocide, and the Rwandan genocide.

• Lemkin's lifelong interest in the mass murder of populations in the 20th century was initially in response to the killing of Armenians in 1915 and later to the mass murders in Nazi controlled Europe. He referred to the Albigensian Crusade as "one of the most conclusive cases of genocide in religious history". He dedicated his life to mobilizing the international community, to work together to prevent the occurrence of such events. In a 1949 interview, Lemkin said "I became interested in genocide because it happened so many times. It happened to the Armenians, then after the Armenians, Hitler took action".

Today is April 24... Armenians all over remember and commemorate the Armenian Genocide... 

Join them and see The Promise... 

“The Euphrates was the tomb of thousands of the deportees.  The Armenians who did not die were shot point blank by Kurds on the banks of the River...

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The Following is From The Times of israel...

Our Obligation to See ‘The Promise’

by Simon Hardy Butler

Piles of dead bodies. Men, women and children stuffed into boxcars. Forced slave labor.

Does any of this sound familiar?

If, on Yom HaShoah, these records of villainy hit close to home, then we, as Jews, [ I will add, we as human beings...] should also remember another genocide that included these horrors yet preceded our own: that of the Armenians by the Ottoman Turkish regime starting in 1915.
The great film The Promise, now in theaters, highlights all of these occurrences from that era.
I just saw it last night in Manhattan, at a big theater more often known for blockbusters and crowd-pleasing entertainment. But The Promise is no such film; it had a large budget, for sure, and is important in that it is the first mainstream Hollywood film to call attention to the Armenian genocide, yet there’s more to it than that. It’s extraordinarily moving. It has scenes that are unforgettable: atrocities beyond scope, humanity beyond reason. It is powerful. It is essential.
All of my fellow brothers and sisters in the Jewish faith should watch it.
We say: “Never again.” And “never again” is what we should adhere to. Still, that mantra didn’t exist in its present form when Armenians were being massacred by Ottoman Turks, when they were being removed from their homes, when their villages were decimated, when their children were murdered.
We say: “Never again.” We must mean it.
To do so, we must understand all genocides, all holocausts, anti-Semitic and otherwise. The Armenian one is particularly crucial, as it took place only a few decades before our own and extinguished 1.5 million Armenian lives. There is no place for such villainy in the world. We cannot just say that, however. We must exemplify it.
So we must educate ourselves further on the subject. We must watch films such as The Promise to make sure we never forget. It is not only a work of art, but it is also a teaching tool. Like Schindler’s List, another cinematic masterpiece. In many ways, The Promise is very similar. It has a terrific score, by Gabriel Yared. It has brilliant performances, especially by Oscar Isaac, who will touch your heart in the picture like few will. It has superb cinematography, editing, production design. It has fearless direction. It even must be subject to the minor quibbles I had with Schindler’s List … that it didn’t show the full, vile extent of the violence and heinous crimes perpetrated by those who orchestrated the genocide. Yet both showed enough. Both made their point well. Both made the terror clear.
That’s why both are critical movies in the history of the silver screen. That’s why both will live forever.
As with Schindler’s List, The Promise is hardly one-dimensional. It is not didactic. Characters are fully developed. Heroes exist on both sides … including Henry Morgenthau, Sr., the Jewish-American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, whose portrayal during a scene with a government official might bring you to tears. On this day of remembrance, the people who fought for justice need to have their names recognized. We, as a people, should know why we do this. We, as a people, should be able to see the import.
I urge every Jewish man and woman who can to see The Promise. I do it with a warning: You may be upset. You may cry. Yet I do it also with the reminder that watching this film ensures a better world for us and all who surround us. It makes us better people. It makes us better rememberers.
Surely, not all memories are the same. The exceptional ones, however, must never be forgotten.
The Promise makes sure of that. We must do so as well.