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This month marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Armenian Genocide at the hands of Turkey.
The Armenian Christian community is one of the oldest in the world. A peaceful and prosperous community living in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire, the Armenians were attacked. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians were forced from their homes and sent on a death march. In August 1915, the New York Times reported “the roads and the Euphrates are strewn with corpses of exiles, and those who survive are doomed to certain death. It is a plan to exterminate the whole Armenian people.”
The recent abductions by ISIS of over 150 Assyrian Christians, as reported by Reuters, has thrown some light on a story that has been absent from America’s mainstream media – the fate of millions of Christians in Syria, as well as the implications of potential harm to the remaining Iraqi Christians and Christian communities in Lebanon.
Our government is in an alliance with countries that are known to incite, to fund and to arm radicals that have brought this about. The very extinction of the Syrian Christian communities might well result from the new plan of action that Congress approves.
But then, who cares? In August 1939, Adolf Hitler told his army commanders, “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
Joseph Elias
Wilkes-Barre