Tuesday, July 22, 2008

The genocide

Came across some history recently, and i must say, i am truly horrified.

I have heard of wars since young, learn them in history classes, but they have never impacted me so much as they did now. World War I & II, Rwanda Genocide, the Vietnam War, and most significant which being the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide, all of which reveals the how our beings can be overcome by the Satan, and how defenseless humans are in those times.

I read with enormous interest about The Armenian genocide, the annihilation of the Armenians. An easy search on Google will reveal all there is to know.

Beginning in 1894, the Muslim Turks carried out a policy to eliminate the Christians Armenian minority. Armenians whom are Christians and believe in God, were the highly educated ones, the ones holding professional positions and having high wealth due to the great importance place in having an education. The Turks whom were Islam were mostly peasants and farmers with no education, as their leaders believe in total loyalty and obedience therefore education is never in their minds.

In their attempt to unify the multi-ethnic race and detruct the growth of Christians, all churches, shops, schools, buidlings were destroyed, a series of massacres begin. an entire 3000 old ancient civilaization were totally wipeout. The Turks even leveled up the towns and villages of Armenian that they have destroyed, in their aim to make sure the world will one day never know of the existence of the Armenians. The Armenians people were subjected to deportation, expropriation, abduction, torture, massacre, rape, slavery,and starvation.

In July 1915, in the holy month of Muslim Ramadan, the highest concentration of massacring and murder occurs in every province of Turkey.To prevent them from being killed, some of the lucky young Armenian boys were able to escaped death by being forcefully converted to Islam secretly by their Turks neighbours, and undergo painful circumcision.
Of the entire two million Armenian population, in the period of 1915-1923, in just 8 years, 1.5 million were murdered.

I read in other articles, the Turks never tried to apologise for the genocide, and put it down in history as a civil war, it is only in the 1980s than they were forced to recognised it as a genocide. Now whenever i think of genocide this word, goosebumps wld run all over my body, as my mind will flash of the dispair, the anguish, and the pain nd agony they have faced. But im glad that our God up in Heaven will nurse their wound and return them their justice when the day comes.

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