RE: The French Piss Off the Turks...
January 24, 2012 at 6:40 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2012 at 6:41 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Quote:Great for them. There isn't much to be pissed off about, since they did recognize the so-called genocide already
THAT is misleading. The Turks have NOT recognised what there rest of the world knows: they committed genocide against the Armenians.
That the Turks officially and individually lack the moral courage to admit the crime is their problem,not the rest of the world's.
Quote:Genocide is defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group",[1] though what constitutes enough of a "part" to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars.[2] While a precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG). Article 2 of this convention defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide
Quote:The Armenian Genocide[1][2]—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, as the Great Crime[3]—was the systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I.[4] It was implemented through wholesale massacres and deportations, with the deportations consisting of forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees. The total number of resulting Armenian deaths is generally held to have been between 1 million and 1.5 million.[5][6][7][8][9] Other ethnic groups were similarly attacked by the Ottoman Empire during this period, including Assyrians and Greeks, and some scholars consider those events to be part of the same policy of extermination.[10][11][12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide
