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Re: Chicago's Assyrians embrace new technology to save ancient language
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Sunday, June 12 2016, 3:51:12 (UTC)
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The recent wars are hardly the Assyrians’ first brush with violence. Their homeland sits in a region with multiple religions, ethnicities and cultures existing together in a rich mosaic of the kind that has long characterised the Middle East. The area’s diversity, however, was torn asunder beginning in 1915, when - as the Ottoman Empire began to collapse - authorities carried out a series of mass killings and deportations that culminated in the genocide of around 1.5 million ethnic Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks.

...the Ottoman Empire did not begin to collapse...it was attacked by a coalition of Western Christian nations eager for its oil and THEN it collapsed...Iraq didn't "begin to collapse" either, it too was attacked by, oddly enough, many of the same Western Christians who attacked the Ottomans....see any pattern? THEY attack and we "begin to collapse".

...Authorities did NOT carry our a "series of mass killings and deportations"...the article must be referring to the genocidal policies of the United States towards its indigenous population..or to the mass killings and deportations carried out by the German Christians against the Jews...a little confusion here, deliberate confusion.

...Christians, and Turks, died from starvation and then disease because the men were called away to defend their homelands and took most farm animals with them, and doctors and medicines in a desperate attempt to defend against Western aggression...everyone suffered and died, equally.....Christians were most definitely moved away from the borders but that was because of their own actions in welcoming foreign missionaries/spies into their border villages, something the Turks could not risk during the war...many people died and certainly there was retaliation against Armenians and Greeks and Assyrians and any others who saw in this war against their country a "golden opportunity" (ahem)...as would happen to any ethnic minority in any country on earth if it made it clear it was cheering for the defeat of their neighbors and homelands....so, cut it out and nice try.

Not you Marcel, of course.,,keep posting them



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