Sonne-2012
Top-Poster
The Assyrian Genocide: a Product of Ottoman Jihad
by Sabri Atman
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]AINA Ed. Note: The following poignant lecture-article has been edited with correction of basic English syntax and spelling, but not to polish or remove its heartfelt cry and only partially to remove its repetitiveness -- which also conveys the heartfelt cry. Thus too we have not edited the text when it concentrates so legitimately on the murders of Assyrians and locates them alongside other fellow Christian victims - the Armenians and Greeks, but errs in not recognizing still other victims - such as the Yezidi people - about whom we also report in this issue of GPN. What is becoming clear is that almost all genocide scholars have erred for years in not identifying the full array of victims in the Armenian Genocide. In my own talk in Athens on the psychology of denying co-victims as a shared genocide (where I also spoke about Jewish denials of co-victims in the Holocaust), I apologized to the audience for my own years-long failure to identify all the co-victims, regrettably including the failure to do so in our award winning Encyclopedia of Genocide in 1999 (USA)/2000 (UK). -- Israel Charny
[/FONT]I belong to the Seyfo Center. 95 years after the genocide, Seyfo or Sepa has become a topical issue in the international arena and it is making headlines. It is now becoming a salient point in international political agendas. Until recently only the Armenian aspect of the genocide was known and most people were not aware that the entire Christian population of the then Ottoman Empire was subjected and suffered under the same genocidal policies of the Young Turks. This is a recognisable difference that I am talking about: it is the recognition and inclusion of the Assyrian and Greek genocide as part of the earlier known Armenian genocide. However, this genocide is yet to be called by its proper name, "Seyfo," in which Western Assyrian dialect it means "the sword."
http://www.helleniccomserve.com/ainaassyriangenocideproductottomanjihad.html
by Sabri Atman
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]AINA Ed. Note: The following poignant lecture-article has been edited with correction of basic English syntax and spelling, but not to polish or remove its heartfelt cry and only partially to remove its repetitiveness -- which also conveys the heartfelt cry. Thus too we have not edited the text when it concentrates so legitimately on the murders of Assyrians and locates them alongside other fellow Christian victims - the Armenians and Greeks, but errs in not recognizing still other victims - such as the Yezidi people - about whom we also report in this issue of GPN. What is becoming clear is that almost all genocide scholars have erred for years in not identifying the full array of victims in the Armenian Genocide. In my own talk in Athens on the psychology of denying co-victims as a shared genocide (where I also spoke about Jewish denials of co-victims in the Holocaust), I apologized to the audience for my own years-long failure to identify all the co-victims, regrettably including the failure to do so in our award winning Encyclopedia of Genocide in 1999 (USA)/2000 (UK). -- Israel Charny
[/FONT]I belong to the Seyfo Center. 95 years after the genocide, Seyfo or Sepa has become a topical issue in the international arena and it is making headlines. It is now becoming a salient point in international political agendas. Until recently only the Armenian aspect of the genocide was known and most people were not aware that the entire Christian population of the then Ottoman Empire was subjected and suffered under the same genocidal policies of the Young Turks. This is a recognisable difference that I am talking about: it is the recognition and inclusion of the Assyrian and Greek genocide as part of the earlier known Armenian genocide. However, this genocide is yet to be called by its proper name, "Seyfo," in which Western Assyrian dialect it means "the sword."
http://www.helleniccomserve.com/ainaassyriangenocideproductottomanjihad.html