Today we remember the Armenian Genocide and Honor its 1.5 Million Victims

“I became interested in genocide, because it happened so many times. It happened to the Armenians and after the Armenians, Hitler took action.” ~ Raphael Lemkin

We call on Turkey, the nation responsible, to own its history and recognize the victims. Thankfully, on June 2, 2016, the German Bundestag (Parliament) almost unanimously (with one vote against and one abstention) passed a resolution qualifying the Ottoman-era Armenian killings ‘genocide’. Denial of the genocide is criminalized. Punishable by up to 3 years in prison and a fine not to exceed €30,000, per act. If your country hasn’t  recognized the Armenian genocide until now, call or write to your Representative and demand action. It’s 108 years today, that the 1.5 million victims, who were robbed of their homes, lives, and dignity should finally receive the justice a world that looked away since 1915 owes them. 

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”One hundred years ago, on the night of April 24, 1915, the genocide of more than 1,500,000 Armenians began. The first to be singled out and massacred were the leaders and intellectuals of the Armenian communities in Ottoman Turkey; when it was over, two out of three Armenians living in that country had perished–the victims of a systematic extermination of Turkey’s Armenian population.

The entire Armenian population was uprooted from its indigenous homeland, which it had inhabited for over 3,000 years.

Hundreds of Armenian churches, monasteries, schools, and cultural centers in Ottoman Turkey were destroyed.

Raphael Lemkin–who first coined the term “genocide” and is considered the father of the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention–cited the fate of Ottoman Turkey’s Armenian population as an example of what constituted a genocide.

In their brutality, the Ottoman Turks set the tone for the 20th century: a dreadful tone which would be heard again in the Nazi death camps, in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in Rwanda and Darfur. And it echoes ominously in our own time, in desperate places where “ethnic cleansing” has become a policy of state, instead of a crime before man and God.” (The Diocese of the Armenian Church of America [Eastern])

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