Friday 17 August 2012

An Open Invitation by the Editor


I would like to reiterate as to what my blog is about, by the following statements below. This is not to prick the contents of the British Government or any other Governments, but to tell it how it is! The Armenian Question has stagnated for almost one hundred years. The whole world is a different being now, and humanity runs high as indeed does the generations who have little to do with the old world and how it was back then. But lest we remember we cannot move on, or stop Genocide occurring again and again. This time it could happen right here! So, being mindful of events that have gone before, I plead with the powers that be to recognise ‘The Armenian Genocide’ not only for the world sake as we know it, but for generations to come. The emphasis is on the Genocide, not on the date. Armenian’s have been systematically culled over many, many generations. We have survived and flourish, were ever we are what ever our circumstance.
Read on and voice your opinions’ right here on this site, no ones opinion will be censored you have the right to think for yourselves and not judge those who have done wrong then but those who continue to perpetuate the stagnant stench of corruption and greed which all sectors of humanity is involved in at this present time.
Be mindful that no abusive language will be tolerated.
I await your comments respectfully.

Seta
17.08.2012 



Dear MP

Last week, Armenian communities across the world remembered the victims of the first genocide of the 20th century that started in 1915 during which up to 1.5 million Armenians were displaced from the ancestral homes and perished. Church services, parades and remembrance events occurred in London as well as throughout nearly all the countries in Europe..

There were no reports of the 24th of April date of remembrance in the British press nor any substantial articles in the European press. Even euronews did not feature this topic.

It is hurtful for our people that this tragedy is ignored in a way that appears that it is being airbrushed from history.  Yet negotiations continue with Turkey, the country that succeeded the Ottoman administration of the time who were the perpetuators.  Should these negotiations lead to Turkey joining Europe, this genocide will become part of the European historical legacy.  It would be far preferable that Turkey faces up to its history as early as possible and before any such outcome. We ask you to remember this and use your good offices to resolve this long-standing issue.

There is a chink of light in the UK. The Holocaust Memorial; Day Trust has added the 24th April in their Dates to Remember and this entry follows for you to understand better the tragedy.  Mrs Aghajanian is now in a convent resting home in Gloucestershire: she gives poignant recall of her memories as a child.

Yours sincerely




Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
Dates to Remember
24/04/1915: Deportation of Armenian intellectuals from Istanbul
24 April 1915 is a symbolic date for commemorating the victims of the Ottoman Empire’s near total destruction of its Armenian population.
This day saw the arrest of 235 leading members of Istanbul’s Armenian community – among them poets, doctors, religious leaders and political dissidents representing some of the most prominent Armenian intellectuals in the Ottoman Empire. Many of the 235 would be tortured and publicly executed in the months following their arrest.
Armenians within the Ottoman Empire already occupied a precarious position when World War One broke out in 1914. Major pogroms during 1894-96, and again in 1909, had seen thousands massacred. After a number of military setbacks in World War One, Ottoman leaders undertook measures to deport Armenian populations from their homes despite the vast majority not being located in areas of military activity.
The Armenians were deported along a number of routes to desert areas that could not sustain them. When the Armenian community of Van, a Southeastern town, resisted attacks against them on 20 April 1915, Ottoman leaders decided to make deportations an empire-wide policy. The Armenians forced upon these death marches were deprived of food and water. Rapes and murders were routinely committed against those deported.
Satenig Ehranjian was an Armenian deported with her family from Erzurum in June 1915. The authorities had already taken her fiancĂ© when she was forced from her home. After several days walking towards the desert, she was separated from her sister and her mother. Her mother was too ill to continue on the torturous journey and her sister was abducted. As with her fiancĂ©, Satenig never saw her sister or mother again.
Deportations like this occurred across the Ottoman Empire throughout 1915 and 1916. By the end of World War One, Ottoman policies of expulsion and extermination of the Armenian population had resulted in the estimated deaths of up to 1.5 million men, women and children.
Adolf Hitler later referenced the systematic destruction of the Armenians as the Nazis planned the murder of European Jews. Today, many communities come together across the world on 24 April to remember the victims of the Ottoman Empire’s campaign to annihilate its Armenian population.
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