I’m Armenian. It’s April 24. ‘Nuff said.
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From the Genocide Education Project:
Armenians around the world observe April 24 as the day of remembrance for the Armenian Genocide. On this date in 1915, the Turkish government arrested close to 250 Armenian leaders in Constantinople. They were sent to prison and most were executed. Across Turkey, community leaders were rounded up and executed in the coming months as the remaining population (mainly women and children) were sent on death marches. By 1918, 1.5 million Ottoman Armenians had been murdered–half of the Ottoman Armenian population. The rest were summarily forced from their historic homeland.
This year, Peter Balakian, a premier scholar has translated his great uncle’s (Grigoris Balakian) memoir– “Armenian Golgotha.” Grigoris Balakian was one of the intellectuals imprisoned on April 24, 1915. He was a priest in the Armenian Church and important leader in the Armenian community. He was able to escape and endured years of adversity as he tried to stay alive during the first modern genocide. “Armenian Golgotha” brings us accounts from an eye witness that saw the brutalities inflicted on innocent Armenians across Anatolia. He records atrocities committed against the Armenians as well as his experiences with Turks and foreign workers who risked life and limb to keep him alive. At first glance it seems an extraordinary read–except that millions of people have perished as a result of genocide. Sadly, the extraordinary aspect of the memoir is not what happened, but that Grigoris Balakian survived.
Elie Wiesel, noted survivor of the Holocaust and Nobel Peace Laureate said “whoever reads or listens to a witness becomes a witness.”
Become a witness. Remember the Armenian Genocide.
Here’s a resource for teachers: TeachGenocide.com
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thank you Steve, for posting this.
Rest in peace, Armenian victims.
Rest in peace.
“Armenians around the world observe April 24 as the day of remembrance for the Armenian Genocide. On this date in 1915, the Turkish government arrested close to 250 Armenian leaders in Constantinople.”
The Armenian Genocide event was really a horrible chapter in the history of human civilization. And to think that the barbaric event took place in the dawn of the 20th century. But then I remembered the Second World War. Genocide was also one of the darkest chapters of this war. And even today, barbaric crimes are still countless as ever. I guess, its only the technology that truly changed about human civilization. There are still cases of genocide today, although, executed in a more subtle manner and using very sophisticated weapons.