ARMENOCIDE-GENOCIDE-HOLOCAUST

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ARMENOCIDE-GENOCIDE-HOLOCAUST picture: http://www.kifar.am/images/armenocide.gif ARMENOCIDE Armenocide -(before Raphael Lemkin) this was how the known Arab historian Musa Pren characterized the tragedy that occurred in the Ottoman Empire/Turkey. By creating the word "genocide" through uniting the Latin-Greek "race" and "murder" words, Famous Polish attorney Rafael Lemken wanted to show the whole horror that threatens peoples subject to mass assassinations, while Pren's "Armenocide" concretizes and gives an ethnic characteristic of the matter. The word "Armenocide" "has not only a linguistic but also a political side that has a concrete ethno-political content that clearly mentions annihilation of Armens - Armenians as an ethnos. The word is so lucid and concrete that cannot give rise to alternative interpretation. At the start of the 20th century, the tragedy that happened in Western Armenia, on the territory of Ottoman Empire/Turkey, changed the fate of a whole nation, and penetrating into the memory of peoples, it turned into a desire to live and to strive. The tragedy left a fatal spot, making a whole people suffer a complex. Such complexes, however, are not cured through short memory or through the loss of the latter. These are cured to spite the organizers of the Genocide, due to life, development and victory. To exclude repetition of similar tragedies it is important to understand the historic and political motivations of it. Historic and Political Reasons of the Armenocide If we speak about the history of the Armenian nation, we can divide it into two parts - before and after the Genocide. This watershed, which we call genocide, assassination, Armenian massacres and at last Armenocide, needs serious study and analysis, particularly from the point of view of developing security of the second independent Republic of Armenia. GENOCIDE The Armenian Genocide is corroborated by the international scholarly, legal, and human rights community: Polish jurist Raphael Lemkin, when he coined the term genocide in 1944, cited the Turkish extermination of the Armenians and the Nazi extermination of the Jews as defining examples of what he meant by genocide. -International Association Of Genocide Scholars HOLOCAUST As for the Turkish atrocities ... helpless Armenians, men, women, and children together, whole districts blotted out in one administrative holocaust -- these were beyond human redress. -Winston Churchill, The Aftermath, 1929, p. 158

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