Friday, March 5, 2010

Is genocide the right word? Is it offensive? Did it happen?

The House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee defy the Obama Administration's plea and voted to condemn Turkey's involvement in the alleged Armenian genocide of 1915.  Turkey has never admitted to having engaged in the annihilation of Armenians the early part of last century, but Armenians and Armenian-Americans in the U.S. claimed that 1.5 people were killed.  Read the article linked to this page and the related ones (see the link when you open the page and read the article) and comment on this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/world/europe/05armenia.html?ref=todayspaper

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