One hundred years ago, a man, an accident of birth like Hitler, with spitting inner-images of each other, once said to a bellicose nation with scimitar-rattling hands, "Burn -- Demolish -- Kill all Armenians." His name was Talat Pasha, a young bloodthirsty Grand Vizier; better known as, the principal architect of the first genocide of the twentieth century; chief director of the genocide of the Armenians as described by Henry Morgenthau, United States ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at that time, and the author of The Murder of a Nation.
In 1915, Talat and the other two members of his triumvirate government, Enver and Djemal set in motion a blood-soaked campaign to exterminate all Armenians from their ancestral land.
Thus the first knell of death was tolled for the Armenian people by the advanced demons of the Ottoman Empire; with Jihadist fervor they went to work, and they did Burn -- they did Demolish -- and they did Kill.
AND Rape, Defile, Plunder, Desecrate, Torture, Decapitate, and Crucify, yes, Crucify, let me say that yet again, in staccato tempo, so the reader could comprehend the incomprehensible, C-R-U-C-I-F-Y (quite apropos in the turbid mind's eye of an Ottoman Turk to do so to infidels, for the Armenians were the first nation in the world to officially adopt Christianity in 301 AD).
Countless other heinous acts were perpetrated with zero compunction and with Mongolian mores to murder and maim, that was their aim and their game. The following, dear reader, will make your cultured flesh creep, I might as well here explain: They nailed horseshoes into the feet of Christian leaders and taunted them to run like cattle towards their Savior Christ. They flayed and torched defenseless people alive. The "butcher battalions" even gambled with lives as yet unborn with twisted brilliance of sadism. They used pregnant women to make wagered-guesses on the gender of their babies whilst still in the safety of their mothers' womb, only to be sliced open with a bayonet tip to reveal the winner of that bet; thus a new Turkish game was invented by killing mother and child, two in one, while they had fun. They perpetrated these heinous acts without the slightest sting of consciousness.
This was the dawning of a new age of evil right at the temporal gates of the twentieth century. Courtesy to the Ottoman Turk, a genocide was being perfected in the killing fields of Anatolia where rivers of blood carried away bodies and souls of a slaughtered nation changing the courses of Tigris, Euphrates, and destinies. It is a documented fact, that the mighty Euphrates did change its course for a hundred yard from the overload of carnage dumped into it.
100 years ago the Ottoman Turks did this, and this by any other name murders a nation just the same. Raphael Lemkin studied the Armenian plight with untiring assiduousness and called it by what it was -- GENOCIDE. Mr. Lemkin coined the word, only; the Ottoman Turks coined the act, verily; the former came from the latter. That is the direction of the arrow of truth.
Unfortunately, today, on the eve of the centennial, and 1.5 million Armenian victims later, modern-day Turks perpetuate the genocide by vehemently denying their forefathers' crime. Through denial, Turks continue to exacerbate the pain and suffering of Armenian survivors worldwide.
Why is it that when the word "genocide" is uttered anywhere in the world, it is exclusively a Turkish heart that hops, skips a beat, and jumps till it fittingly drops in his sole-less shoe of denial, and much quicker than you could grunt the "G" phoneme? WHY? Is it possible that an Assyrian, a Pontus Greek, a Bulgarian of Batak, or an Alevi of Dersim would know the answer to this conundrum? You bet! for they too were massacred en masse by the same grand masters of genocide.
The greatest danger to Turkey lies not in anyone’s use of the word “genocide,” but in refusing to acknowledge what took place 100 years ago. As recently as April 12, 2015, when Pope Francis uttered the word "genocide" the Turkish authorities ran amuck and went on autopilot attack mode, and began denying the undeniable; defend the undefendable, while parroting ad nauseam, "our-noble-ancestors-did-nothing-wrong” line. In 1915 alone, The New York Times published 145 articles about the Armenian genocide.
Genocide is not the result of denial; denial is the result of genocide. As French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy declared, “Deniers are not merely expressing an opinion; they are perpetrating a crime.” Yes, A CRIME.
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