Let’s recognize what really happened
As many of you know, this is an issue near and dear to my heart…
I firmly believe the U.S. should officially recognize the horrific and historical atrocity of the Armenian Genocide, also known as the “Great Calamity.”
For those of you who don’t know about it: More than a million Armenian people were marched to their death during World War I and beyond. I know, the number is so staggering, I cannot even fathom it.
Right now MSNBC has posted a poll on the matter and I cannot believe how many people have voted “no.” I’m left to wonder if people are really aware of the gravity of the situation.
I voted “yes” and would appreciate it if you felt it in your heard to vote “yes” too.
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I can’t believe people don’t care about that. I’m really in shock. Very calous.
I think this is outrageous and also think there is a major flaw in the design of this poll. I dont think that they should have written that Turkey is way too important to the U.S. as an ally during war as an explanation for why someone would vote no. The war right now, or turkey as an ally has nothing to do with the facts about whether something happened or not. In this case, something that definately did happen. You cannot deny the truth!!
Unbeleivable! Thanks for bringing this to our attention Kimmy.
XOXO
I got chills when i read about this on ur blog Kim im so happy u rote about this not to many people are aware of this incident and i cant believe it still isnt recognized as a genocide but im going to go there now and vote yes…LOVE U KIM
talk a about more beauty and make up n leave those things away, ur too pretty
I think it has a lot to do with “lack of education”. Being part Armenian like yourself, I was taught about the genocide at an early age, but I’m not sure others are aware of the severity and importance of it.
Hi Kim,
I read your posts daily but don’t often leave a comment. I am Armenian but now live in Australia – I only check your posts because you have the same features as me so I like to see what your wearing hair and make-up etc.
I am impressed that you brought this very important issue to the attention of your fans. The reality of the Genocide is overlooked by so many government bodies worldwide.
What happened to our ancestors is tragic on so many levels and hits home because many of the survivors of the Genocide are still around today. My great grandfather was killed in the Genocide, my family has grown so much because of orphans that my ancestors took in and raised as their own. I’m 23 and came to Australia when I was 5. I still remember armed soldiers walking us to and from kinder – this is just an example of how many people were and still effected so many years on.
I just want to get out there that the push to recognize the event as a genocide by no means is anything against the Turkish people. I’ve got many Turkish friends and love traveling in Istanbul but it important to formalize such blatant attempts to cause mass harm on a group of people purely because they are Armenian.
I have a new found respect for you Kim.
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Hey Kim, this isnt the first poll msnbc is doing about the Armenian Genocide, and i dont itll be the last until the American gv accepts once and for all what happened..i remember a couple of mounths ago pres. Bush said on national tv ”we deaply regret what atrocities happened to the Armenian people but now is not the time to accept it”..something like that..what he ment was ”that the Americans have a military base in Turkey and if we accept the Armenian Genocide caused by the Turkish Ottoman empire in 1915 then the Turkish gv would give us alot of problems and we need them, there one of our most important allies”
I beleive that by accepting their huge huge huge mistakes, the Turks will become better people and will prevent this happenig again..by deniying the truth..it could cause another genocide!!!! i know its hard to admit that the Turks forfathers were murderes, who would wanne admit that!!! but the truth is the truth you can deny and say all u want that for es. a person doesnt have biological parents but that does not make it true!!!!
i voted YES, obviously
I voted Yes! Absolutely! That is so fuc king retarded they won’t acknowledge it…did it really happen?? Uh fu ck yeah it happened, why don’t you go dig up the graves of the hundreds of thousands of Armenian bodies that the fuc king Turks tried to hide and then scratch your head and ask yourself where the hell did they come from.
Did it happen? I can’t believe people even ask that question. Fuc king idiots. I have learned a lot about the Armenian genocide. In Armenia they call it the Great Calamity. Anyway, you may get on my nerves lately, but I still voted yes because it should be recognized as a genocide.
From Wikipedia:
The Armenian Genocide (Armenian: ????? ??????????????, Turkish: Ermeni Soyk?r?m?), also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, the Great Calamity (??? ?????)–refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction (genocide) of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. It was characterised by the use of massacres, and the use of deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of Armenian deaths generally held to have been between one and one-and-a-half million.[1] Other ethnic groups were similarly attacked by the Empire during this period, including Assyrians and Greeks, and some scholars consider the events to be part of the same policy of extermination.[2]
It is widely acknowledged to have been one of the first modern, systematic genocides,[3][4] as many Western sources point to the sheer scale of the death toll as evidence for a systematic, organized plan to eliminate the Armenians.[5]
The date of the onset of the genocide is conventionally held to be April 24, 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. Thereafter, the Ottoman military uprooted Armenians from their homes and forced them to march for hundreds of miles, depriving them of food and water, to the desert of what is now Syria. Massacres were indiscriminate of age or gender, with rape and other sexual abuse commonplace. The Armenian Genocide is the second most-studied case of genocide.[6]
The Republic of Turkey, the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, does not accept the word genocide as an accurate description of the events.[7] In recent years, it has faced repeated calls to accept the events as genocide. To date, twenty-one countries have officially recognized the events of the period as genocide, and most scholars[8] and historians[9] accept this view.[10][11] The majority of Armenian diaspora communities were founded as a result of the Armenian genocide.