From: hovig@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Hovig Heghinian)
Subject: Re: THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY SOLD 400 TONES OF ARMENIAN BONES IN 1924.
Keywords: April 24, 1993, 78th Anniversary of the Turkish Genocide of Armenians
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Lines: 42

dbd@urartu.sdpa.org (David Davidian) writes:

>On the 78th Commemorative Anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenians,
>we remember those whose only crime was to be Armenian in the shadow of an 
>emerging Turkish proto-fascist state. In their names we demand justice.

>In April 1915, the Turkish government began a systematically executed 
>de-population of the eastern Anatolian homeland of the Armenians through a 
>genocidal extermination. This genocide was to insure that Turks exclusively
>ruled over the geographic area today called the Republic of Turkey. The 
>result: 1.5 million murdered, 30 billion dollars of Armenian property stolen
>and plundered. This genocide ended nearly 3,000 years of Armenian civilization
>on those lands. Today, the Turkish government continues to scrape clean any
>vestige of a prior Armenian existence on those lands. Today's Turkish
>governmental policy is to re-write the history of the era, to manufacture
>distortion and generate excuses for their genocide of the Armenian people. In 
>the face of refutation ad nauseam, the Turkish Historical Society and cronies 
>shamelessly continue to deny that any such genocide occurred. This policy 
>merely demonstrates that in the modern era, genocide is an effective state 
>policy when it remains un-redressed and un-punished. A crime unpunished is a 
>crime encouraged. Adolf Hitler took this cue less than 25 years after the 
>successful genocide of the Armenians.

[ ... ]

>ARMENIANS DEMAND JUSTICE                              ERMENILER ADALET ISTIYOR

>-- 
>David Davidian dbd@urartu.sdpa.org   | "Armenia has not learned a lesson in
>S.D.P.A. Center for Regional Studies |  Anatolia and has forgotten the 
>P.O. Box 382761                      |  punishment inflicted on it."  4/14/93
>Cambridge, MA 02238                  |   -- Late Turkish President Turgut Ozal 
To which I say:
Hear, hear.  Motion seconded.

Hovig


-- 
Hovig Heghinian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Computer Science