As many of you know, I am Armenian, and like all Armenians April 24th is a day of reflection, remembrance, sorrow, and vexation. For the past 96 years the Turks fail to recognize a genocide against my people where 1.5 million Armenian men, women, and children were slaughtered in a plot to obliterate us from this planet. My great grandmother was one of the surviving children of the genocide, and this event has affected most Armenians living today.
Every year since April 24, 1915, we Armenians protest and try to get the genocide recognized, and every year Turkey threatens to cut off ties with any nation that does. This has become a matter or money and politics rather than humanity and healing. How can the world turn a blind eye to something so catastrophic. Can you imagine telling a Jewish person that the Holocaust never happened? That is what it feels like to be an Armenian today.
Armenians were the first nation on earth to accept Christianity and since the Genocide landed on Easter this year, I thought I would share this piece of history with you. The history books barely mention it, and according to the Turks, this never happened, but it did happen, so I want to share with you an amazing German documentary that came out recently about the Armenian Genocide. It has first person accounts of all that happened and relates it back to modern day and explains the agenda as to why Turkey is keeping its people ignorant of the Genocide.
And System of a Down was involved in a great documentary about the Armenian Genocide which is worth watching. SCREAMERS
And I am also linking some amazing news coverage and various other documentaries on the annihilation of the Armenians, these will explain the events better than I can ever wish to write them.
CBS 60 Minutes:The Armenian Genocide
BBC Documentary: Armenian Genocide:'The Betrayed'
PBS: The Armenian Genocide Trailer
With all the ugliness going on in this world today, please take some time to educate yourselves and heighten awareness of this sort of thing, so it will never happen again. So that me and every single Armenian on this planet can finally heal and move on. Thank you!
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6 comments:
Very insightful Zar, Good links and I too find it frustrating when people every day choose not to educate themselves about important things! Stay cool Zar. keep up the good posts!!!
Hi Zar,
I'm sad that almost 90 after this tragedy almost nothing have changed about recognizing the real fact of the Armenian genocide but I'm glad to see that you are keeping stronger and high the memories of yours!
Don't give up
your friend
Seb
Wow Zar, I didn't even know that an Armenian Genocide had ever occurred. Great post, the torch of humanity has been passed on to yet another person - thanks, Jayson
you ve got great artwork here Zar!
keep on!
Bernardo
www.bernardofranca.com
i feel so bad for not knowing about this. just shows how badly they work to not let people know about it. Your grandmother must be very brave. thanks for this post. love your work.
This is perhaps one of the biggest cover-ups in the modern history. Shameful how Turkey bullies and denies its own past wrong doings repeatedly.
Armenia is such a wonderfully rich country with bountiful nature and beautiful tradition...like all other great cultures it was persecuted for its greatness and spirit.
You could add Atom Egoyan's Ararat to the list of films along with some of Sayat Nova's brilliance.
Wonderfully heartfelt post. Viva Hayastan!
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