WASHINGTON TIMES
by Clifford May
April 28, 2015

Genocide of 100 years ago is recurring, now in the Middle East

Displayed outside the Turkish embassy in Washington last week was a large banner reading, “Armenian genocide is an imperialist lie.” That claim might be amusing were the subject not so dreadful. The slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in 1915 was carried out by the Ottoman Empire. It was, therefore, by definition, an imperialist crime, one regarded by most experts as the first genocide of the 20th century. The notion that some other empire (which one?) has fabricated a slander against Turkey is ludicrous. Those who came up with that slogan must assume they are addressing a clueless audience….Armenians were ordered to give up their weapons. Those “who could not produce arms were brutally tortured…By 1915, with the Armenian population disarmed, “the genocidal spree entered its main stage: mass deportations and massacres.” READ MORE