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GERMAN MPS RECOGNISE ARMENIAN ‘GENOCIDE’ #Armenia #Germany #Turkey #NayabChohan #TemplateNews #DistantEchoes #NayabChohanLIVE

02 Thursday Jun 2016

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More than 20 countries – including France and Russia – say the deportations of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in WW1 was ‘genocide’. Turkey denies there was a systematic attempt to wipe out a population.

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Macedonia blames Kosovans for attack on town of Kumanovo which left eight dead #Kosovo #Macedonia #Balkans

10 Sunday May 2015

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MACEDONIA –  Police raided the Albanian town of Kumanovo which resulted in the deaths of fourteen Albanians and eight police officers. Albanians make up a quarter of Macedonia’s population.

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If the treatment of Armenians was a genocide, then what was this .. #Armenia100yrs #TEMPLATEANALYSIS

13 Monday Apr 2015

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ANALYSIS – As the First World War began to turn on the Ottoman empire, Armenian nationalists pursued their dream of a Greater Armenia stretching all way to the Caucasus. They committed unspeakable acts against the Muslim civilian population whilst under Russian and French tutelage.

Here are some accounts ..

“I arrived at Bayburt on August 8 1917. What I saw was terrifying,” observed Tatiana Karamel, a nurse Russian Red Cross. “Armenians under the Russian administration were carrying out horrifying wild atrocities against the Turks in Bayburt and Ispir.

“The rebels named Arshak and Antranik slaughtered the children in the orphanage, I worked at, with their daggers. They raped young girls and women.

“They took away 150 children with them, while they were withdrawing from Bayburt and killed most of them while they were still on the way.”

Old men and women, who had made it past a century of living, recounted some of the horrors they witnessed in their youth, when Armenian rebels committed atrocities in the eastern and southern Anatolia, all the way through to modern-day Azerbaijan.

Sirri Huseyinoglu, from Alacain, in Erzurum, remembered: “I was 19 during the period of Armenians atrocities. The Armenians had established an organisation.

“An Armenian general called Antwon-ich led them. They started atrocities in the villages

“At Erzurum they massacred 6 or 7000 people. They imprisoned them in huts

They tied a quilt on a water buffalo then they poured gasoline on the quilt and set it o on fire, They closed the buffalo in the hut. It went wild in the hut killing people.

“Makes a man go out of his mind to remember it.”

Mehmet Ackal , 106, Sambeyli, Adana : “Not one Muslim man was left they were imprisoned and killed. Children were boiled in water. They said ‘We are serving you lamb’ and made women eat their husbands.”

On Russian commander wrote on Jan 29, 1915 that the Armenian rebels were behaving in an “undisciplined and immoral” manner, “subjecting the civilians to violence” during the takeover of Van.

To this day, the stories of these people is ignored, written out of history as an irrelevance.

Europeans prefer the version offered by Jewish writer and poet Franz Werfel.

Fearing for the fate of Jews in Nazi Germany, he wrote an allegory called ‘The 40 Days of Musa Dagh,’.

In this work, Werfel substituted the Nazis with the Young Turks, and the Jews with the Armenians.

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Everyone – including the West – share the blame for the Ottoman deportation of Armenians in 1915

23 Wednesday Apr 2014

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ANALYSIS – In the year 1915, the Ottoman government headed by Enver Pasha made a decision the ramifications of which are still contested to this day. They deported the civilian population of Armenians from Anatolia to Syria and it is claimed by Armenian nationalists, as well as Western governments such as France and Britain, that this horrific act was genocide,  a precursor to the Nazi holocausts of  the second world war. Indeed even Hitler himself referred to this cruelty with the equally cruel words – who remembers the Armenians? However,  the Ottoman government,  and later the Turkish government have always claimed that this was an act of self defence as Armenian leaders who had pledged their allegiance to Istanbul, quickly switched sides to favour Russia once the fighting had begun. So, today’s offer of condolence by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan the Armenian people for that dark event is a positive step towards both nations reconciling their past. But that is not enough – the West of which Britain,  France and Russia were its spearhead need to own up to their part in this episode, as well as others, that resulted in destroying an empire that had been built on racial, religious and ethnic tolerance and which had for centuries functioned without any trouble to speak. When the West sponsored a rebellion with little support from the Greek community inside the Ottoman empire they opened a pandora’s box of claims the implications of which we are still living with in the Balkans and Middle East. When Serbs spoke bitterly of being mistreated by their fellow Christians during the Yugoslav wars of the nineteen eighties they were referring to the time period that began with the Greek war of Independence and ended with the conclusion of the First World War. In short, for them killing Muslims in the eighties was no different to killing them a century before when the West turned a blind eye to the countless real atrocities committed by their fellow Christian cousins and reeled in horror to any often false accounts of ‘Muslim butchery and barbarity’. The so-called Bulgarian horrors were an exaggerated account of a massacre committed by Ottoman irregulars in a small village,  in response to the horrendous act committed by Bulgarian nationalists against Muslim peasants living in the hills of eastern Europe. Of course that did not matter to the Russian Czar since he and his forefathers had got away with massacring Muslims from the moment Ivan the Terrible had seized Kazan in 1552. And did it did not matter when Armenian nationalists under Russian tutelage committed appalling savage acts against Muslim civilians in eastern Anatolia and modern day Azerbaijan, a year after the ‘Armenian genocide’, what mattered was that the West got its way in the Balkans which it eventually did. Trouble is of course that getting your own way doesn’t mean that you are right – it just means that you got your own way, regardless of the consequences for every one, those who perished through no fault of their own and those who continue today in a world built on lies and ‘recovered’ memories. And for that Britain, France and Russia need to hold their hands up and admit what they had done,  and explain the reasons for it – extreme racial hostility to a Muslim entity they regarded as racially beneath them.

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France plans to make denial of Armenian Genocide a crime

21 Wednesday Dec 2011

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Nicolas Sarkozy has sponsored a proposed bill to make the denial of the Armenian genocide a crime in France, which would be met with up to a year in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros.

Predictably, the move has brought a fierce response from Turkey.

France has warned her against any reprisals that would damage Paris’s commercial interests, arguing that law was part of the French state’s commitment to the World Trade Organisation.

The Europeans have always taken the high ground when it comes to human rights, whilst being strangely myopic when it comes to admitting to their own crimes against humanity.

Here are a couple of episodes that I discovered during research for my novel, Pictures and Words.

Armenia was part of the Ottoman Empire which had allied itself with Germany and Austria in the First World War against the allies, Britain, France and Russia.

The decision to go to war was made by Ottoman War Minister, Enver Pasha, the head of  a movement that aimed unite the empire under the idea of a greater Turkey, in the same way as Germany and Italy had been forged from disparate states.

Europeans called this movement the ‘Young Turks.’   

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The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was a publication of the British Propaganda Office. It was written by James Byrce and Arnold Toynbee, and presented, until now, unpublished news sources that showed how the Armenians suffered during the First World War. The only problem with the report, known as the ‘blue book’, was that it ignored the slaughter of Muslims by Armenian rebels whilst they were under Russian control and French tutelage. As the war began to turn on the Ottomans, Armenian nationalists pursued their dream of a Greater Armenia stretching all way to the Caucasus. Nothing would get in their way – they would commit horrendous acts while exaggerating the pain suffered by their ‘own’ people.

 “I arrived at Bayburt on August 8 1917. What I saw was terrifying,” observed Tatiana Karamel, a nurse Russian Red Cross. “Armenians under the Russian administration were carrying out horrifying wild atrocities against the Turks in Bayburt and Ispir.

“The rebels named Arshak amd Antranik slaughtered the children in the orphanage, I worked at, with their daggers. They raped young girls and women.

“They took away 150 children with them, while they were withdrawing from Bayburt and killed most of them while they were still on the way.”

Old men and women, who had made it past a century of living, recounted some of the horrors they witnessed in their youth, when Armenian rebels committed atrocities in the eastern and southern Anatolia, all the way through to modern-day Azerbaijan.

Sirri Huseyinoglu, from Alacain, in Erzurum, remembered: “I was 19 during the period of Armenians atrocities. The Armenians had established an organisation.

“An Armenian general called Antwon-ich led them. They started atrocities in the villages

“At Erzurum they massacred 6 or 7000 people. They imprisoned them in huts

They tied a quilt on a water buffalo then they poured gasoline on the quilt and set it o on fire, They closed the buffalo in the hut. It went wild in the hut killing people.

“Makes a man go out of his mind to remember it.”

Mehmet Ackal , 106, Sambeyli, Adana : “Not one Muslim man was left they were imprisoned and killed. Children were boiled in water. They said ‘We are serving you lamb’ and made women eat their husbands.”

On Russian commander wrote on Jan 29, 1915 that the Armenian rebels were behaving in an “undisciplined and immoral” manner, “subjecting the civilians to violence” during the takeover of Van.

To this day, the stories of these people is ignored, written out of history as an irrelevance.

Europeans prefer the version offered by Jewish writer and poet Franz Werfel.

Fearing for the fate of Jews in Nazi Germany, he wrote an allegory called ‘The 40 Days of Musa Dagh,’.

In this work, Werfel substituted the Nazis with the Young Turks, and the Jews with the Armenians.

Chapter 10

Before the American defeat at Vietnam, it was the Algerian war of independence that had inspired the colonised peoples of the world.

When the French had forced their way into what they regarded as a rundown Ottoman province, it took them decades to ’pacify’ this land. During this time, her soldiers took a fancy to the silver ear rings, leg rings and arm rings worn by the local girls, which they took by cutting off entire limbs. Then, no one was too concerned for the French were bringing the benefits of civilisation to a backward people. France always felt bitter about the way the Arabs had repaid them, as the world horrified at the military crackdown forced the colonisers to leave a land they still regard as theirs.

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Clashes on Kosovo-Serb border

01 Thursday Dec 2011

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For several weeks now, RussiaToday have covered tensions on the border between the Serbs of Kosovo and Nato troops, the Kfor, who are there to ensure that there is not a repeat of previous horrors.

The Serbs want to join the European Union, whilst Kosovo’s declaration of independence has been met with predictable hostility from Belgrade and a lukewarm response from the Islamic world.

That the minority Serbs are treated appalingly in this tiny nation of ethnic Albanians is without a shadow of doubt.

The trouble is those very Serbs still don’t think they have done anything wrong.

When I was in Pristina some fives years after Nato’s intervention in 1999 to prevent ethnic cleansing of Albanian Kosovars, the scars of that time were everywhere.

At the top of the main hill running into the capital, a Serb Orthodox Church had been erected to symbolise the triumph of the Cross over the Crescent. It is still shiny and new even though the grass around it visuably demonstrated that it would not be in use any time soon.

Young Albanians – they are very young and very beautiful – went about their daily lives, even though many carried horrific stories.

One student at the American University told me that the Serbs had come to his village and taken his father away during the conflict.

He still didn’t know what had happened to him.

And it was commonplace to hear the story of Srebrenica, for the Albanians had taken to the hills fearing that fate awaited them as the European nations pondered about what they would do about Kosovo, just as they had done during the Yugoslav wars.

There is a statue in centre of Pristina of a warrior who had given his life for his people and killed many Serbs, as one Albanian told me.

No one seemed to care about this man much, in fact most Albanians give the impression that they just want to get on with life free of any conflicts.

Perhaps it’s time the Serbs started to do the same, they could begin by forgetting about that Battle on the Field of Blackbirds in 1389.

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Serbia’s Past

04 Monday Jul 2011

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Novak Djokovic steamrollered his way to victory in yesterday’s Wimbledon men’s final.

His opponent, the much fancied Rafael Nadal, did not have a response to the relentless barrage that he endured from the young Serb, who we  are told had at the age of twelve been sent away from home to realise his potential as a tennis player.

His performance was applauded by no less a person than the president of Serbia, which gives you an idea of how important winning Wimbledon was to this tiny Balkan state, which has been craving for acceptance amongst its fellow Christian European nations.

As pictures of Djokovic clasping the much prized trophy were appearing all over national newspapers in this country, and no doubt abroad, another man from Serbia was making his presence felt at the war crimes tribunal at the Hague.

Ratko Mladic was being thrown out of court for his behaviour.

He is accused of the massacre at Srebrenica, the worst atrocity in Europe since the Second World War.

Some 8, 000 men and boys are said to have been killed by forces commanded by the Serb warlord.

If Serbia is indeed to join Europe, and just as importantly gain the acceptance she so craves, then she needs to own up what was going on at that time, why her people had turned so violently on her neighbours, with whom the only difference was  religion and what she is doing to ensure that it never happens again.

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