The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> another bid at assyrian "genocide"

another bid at assyrian "genocide"
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, July 13 2011, 15:30:07 (UTC)
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...apparently there was a conference in Sweden with many scholars discussing the Turkish so-called genocide...there are normal white historians but if you read the brief descriptions of what they actually said you quickly see that they were included to make the place smell pretty...so that like FOX news does they could be trotted out in and around the usual suspects, the nationalists all wailing and weeping their sorry tales, in order to lend some legitimacy to the sorry mess.

I picked out a few...the first one is actually a reasonable approach, or has within it what is more accurate.


"Abdulmesih BarAbraham of the Yoken-Bar-Yoken Foundation described Turkey’s Key Arguments in Denying the Assyrian Genocide. He summarized the works of Salahi Ramadan Sonyel and Bulent Ozdemir on the Assyrian genocide, which emphasize that the Assyrians were the ‘smallest Ally’ of Britain and Russia, who rebelled against Ottoman Empire. In addition, both play down the effect of the events on the Assyrians, claiming that Assyrians had long lived together in peace with Turks and Kurds, and suffered flight from their homes and losses in battle as a result. In 1931, the Republic of Turkey issued a directive on the teaching of history from a Kemalist slant. The Turkish Historical Society enjoys a constitutional mandate under article 134 of the constitution of 2005. The Assyrian section of the society was set up in 2007 under the leadership of Bulent Özdemir. Özdemir argues that the Jacobites of Mardin, Midyat, Diyarbakir and Mosul lived in peace because they did not rebel, while the Assyrians of Hakkari, Van and Urmia suffered losses because they joined with Russia in the war. The Society’s stand is denial of any wrongdoing by the Turks; to blame are external powers, missionaries, and the victims for what happened. In their narrative, there was no planned genocide, but some armed robberies and outbreaks of illness."

...yes, and that's what actually happened. In the next excerpt you see, accidentally, what the motivation is for making these claims by our nationalists...all of whom are tired of driving taxis....



"Nineb Lamassu of the School or Oriental and African Studies, University of London (Assyriology) spoke on a ‘Private Archive of Malik Yaqu and Malik Ismael and Early Attempts at Compensation for Seyfo .’ The maliks of the Assyrians living in the United States in the 1960s learned that Germany had paid over $800 million in reparations to the Jews for the Holocaust, and explored in private communications the tabulation of Assyrian losses due to Seyfo, especially churches and agricultural lands and flocks, for a lawsuit seeking compensation from Turkey. Mr. Lamassu reviewed several letters from private archives he has consulted in the United States during his participation in the Modern Assyrian Research Archive project. He described how MARA will help scholars engaged in similar research in the future."

..."compensation"...that's what fuels 99% of this hogwash.



"Nineb Lamassu of the School or Oriental and African Studies, University of London (Assyriology) spoke on a ‘Private Archive of Malik Yaqu and Malik Ismael and Early Attempts at Compensation for Seyfo .’ The maliks of the Assyrians living in the United States in the 1960s learned that Germany had paid over $800 million in reparations to the Jews for the Holocaust, and explored in private communications the tabulation of Assyrian losses due to Seyfo, especially churches and agricultural lands and flocks, for a lawsuit seeking compensation from Turkey. Mr. Lamassu reviewed several letters from private archives he has consulted in the United States during his participation in the Modern Assyrian Research Archive project. He described how MARA will help scholars engaged in similar research in the future."

...it was WAR...people suffer losses in a WAR...that's the whole fucking point!!!

...it's interesting that whenever they discuss assyrians running for their lives they say it is because of "persecution"...not once do they mention this current war as a reason....as if assyrians were running for their lives BEFORE America attacked!

...no need to point out that this was a Christian shindig....so embarrassed are Christians that they, and only they, have committed Genocide, that they are at great pains to share this distinction with Muslims...but it won't work...the very word "Genocide" was coined in 1947 to describe what Christians had done to Jews...it never existed before then.



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