Armenocide – In the desert of Deir ez-Zor where the bones of a thousand slain Armenians have been lying for a century
OLJ / April 29, 2015 at 00h00 – lorientlejour.com:
OUR READERS HAVE THE WORD – HILDA DADOURIAN
In the desert of Deir ez-Zor, where the bones of thousands of massacred Armenians have been lying for a century, each grain of sand still vibrates and trembles, waiting for justice to be done. Men, women and children thrown on the path of the exodus, tortured, starving for the sole fault of having been Armenians.
With the sole aim of wanting to get rid of it and in order to achieve the creation of a Turkish national state, more than a million and a half Armenians perished in atrocious circumstances between 1915 and 1918 on the orders of the Turkish authorities of the era led by Talaat Pasha and Atatürk.
A decision qualified as ethnic cleansing, a process which began, as a signal for this community, with the arrest and execution of several of its leaders and notables; then followed massacres of entire families in Anatolia, before deporting the survivors en masse arbitrarily to the path of Calvary where death awaited them – and I am ashamed to say that I belong to the human race in the face of the cruelty of these massacres.
Why this sudden cruelty against this community which had nevertheless integrated well in Turkey, living in cordiality and in perfect harmony with Turkish citizens? Why did brotherly feelings turn into hatred?
While the question of the Armenian genocide has taken on an international dimension, genocide even qualified as armenocide, Turkey persists in denying it by trying to reduce the number of victims of these atrocious killings, while it is according to a well-planned plan that ‘he was executed.
Today, Turkey, which wants to be open to the world and wishes to join the European Union, would benefit from no longer ignoring the term genocide in which its ancestors were involved, this refusal hardly helping the image of opening that Ankara wants to give itself.
It would therefore be wise for his current government to respect the memory of the innocent victims of this tragedy by recognizing the mistakes of the past in order to allow the two countries and especially their future generations to renew good neighborly ties and evolve. together in a good way, like today’s Germany with its neighbors after having recognized the holocaust of the Jewish people.
All the more so since the Armenian genocide has now been recognized by the European Parliament and almost all the countries of the Middle East. But as long as it is obscured by the descendants of its executors, it will remain alive in our memories; and this gaping wound which is still bleeding in the hearts of the Armenian people will only heal when justice is done to their ancestors who died under inhuman circumstances.
This is repeated today in the countries around us where Christian minorities are cowardly persecuted. It is not permissible to witness further wars in the name of religion resulting in death and destruction for the benefit of devastating racism and fanaticism which prevents the world from moving on the right track.
Our century must embody the understanding between peoples in order to put an end to the violence and injustices which only lead to misfortune and destruction. It is time to get out of this vicious circle and finally regain the peace to which the peoples of the world aspire.
Hilda DADOURIAN
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