It’s the 100-year anniversary – a very sad anniversary – of the Armenian genocide. Even today, the Turks refuse to accept that it was a deliberate attempt to wipe a people off the face of the Earth. Not unlike Japanese refusal to accept their nation’s responsibility for atrocities committed by Japanese forces during WWII.
Here’s a link to a thoughtful piece about HOW these actions occur – afterwards, too many people have trouble understanding just how a seemingly civilized nation could possibly be complicit – even directing – deliberate murder, rape, and attempted annihilation of their own citizens, based on cultural/religious factors.
