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11-3-2007 2:02 PM
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davboz says:
--<< "Eyewitness accounts are even more graphic. Foreign diplomats posted in the Ottoman Empire at the time told of the atrocities, but were powerless to act.
One described the concentration camps, saying: "As on the gates of Dante's Hell, the following should be written at the entrance of these accursed encampments: 'You who enter, leave all hopes.'"
So how exactly did the events of 1915-17 unfold? Just as Hitler wanted a Nazi-dominated world that would be Judenrein - cleansed of its Jews - so in 1914 the Ottoman Empire wanted to construct a Muslim empire that would stretch from Istanbul to Manchuria.
Armenia, an ancient Christian civilisation spreading out from the eastern end of the Black Sea, stood in its way.
A prominent Turkish writer at the time described the war as "the awaited day" when the Turks would exact "revenge, the horrors of which have not yet been recorded in history". >>--
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11-3-2007 2:08 PM
davboz
This was revenge of a Muslim empire - as they blamed Armenian Christians for their defeat by Russia.

11-4-2007 12:08 AM
davboz
But is now the time to press Turkey over it?
MOST DEFINITELY NOT !
Fortunately, Pelosi & Crew seemed to have come to a semblance of their senses.
It is time to keep this on the back shelf.
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