WHY THE RELUCTANCE OVER ARMENIAN ISSUE
Alberto Michel Chahoud UAE
7DAYS, United Arab Emirates
Oct 16 2007
When French philosopher Roger Garaudy published "The Founding Myths of
Modern Israel" in 1996, he faced serious charges by French courts,
as his book contested the existence of gas chambers in Hitler’s
Germany, as well as the number of Jewish population eliminated in
concentration camps.
Back then, the "democratic world" backed the charges against Garaudy,
as they found the author’s "allegations" offensive to human rights
and mainly to Jews’ sentiments, as some governments claimed.
It is so weird how those same governments, so eager to defend human
rights, still cannot feel the urgency to defend the rights of the
Armenian population slaughtered during the First World War by Ottoman
Turks, where more than 1.5 million Armenians were systematically
eliminated and a million others deported. Today, 92 years after the
Armenian genocide Ankara is still denying the crime, despite thousands
of pictures, films, testimonials and other irrefutable proofs that
have been publicly available to the entire world.
Today, Turkey is angry! It is infuriated at the potential resolution
by the American Congress, labeling the Armenian killing by Turkey
as genocide. Of course Turkey is angry; not only will this new
development shed more light on the Ottomans’ shameful butchery against
Armenians, but it might also hamper Ankara’s efforts to secure an EU
membership. Whatever the case, hats off to the American Congress,
despite the lengthy delay in taking such an action. While this new
resolution might sound firm, it should be considered as an invitation
to the world to stop living in denial and start admitting the mistakes
and atrocities committed throughout the history of humanity.
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