“Who today, after all, speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
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100 Year Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide KGNU News
April 24th marks the 100 anniversary of the Armenian genocide when, In 1915, the Turkish government launched a premeditated organized campaign to eliminate the millennia-old Armenian people from their traditional homeland in what is now southeastern Turkey. The Turkish officials responsible for the genocide were never brought to account. This was not lost on Adolf Hitler. Just days before launching World War Two he told his generals, “Who today, after all, speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?” What makes this genocide unique is that Turkey refuses to acknowledge it ever happened. And that denial is the final stage of genocide: closure and justice is denied to the victims and their descendants. David Barsamian’s mother Araxie was orphaned in the genocide at the age of 10.
