Turkey Recalls Ambassador Over Genocide Resolution

[LeftEyeNine]

The genocidal actions taken may or may not have been a programmatic action of the government. It is a certainty that the "transportation/forced migration" policies ended up killing many Armenians, even if that was not their ostensible intent.

I have not reached a full set of conclusions here.

Armenians topping a million, during their enforced migration (Law of Tehcir) lost their lives unfortunately, due to the avenging of Turks and Kurds from them about the deeds of the Armenian gangs raised, armed and provocated by the Russians during their Caucasian Invasion and the French. The reasons to such a massacre also compose of the poor organization of the enforcement by the state (I wonder how they thought they could think of succeeding such transportation through those times when the army was exhausted, the state was in chaos and the folk was terribly war worn, poor and furious). Famine, epidemic and -as foretold- murders ended up with so many lives -mostly innocent- getting lost into the darkest pages of history, sticking at the Turkish nation's face as a "genocide" -which was never intended nor imposed.

Once again, God bless the innocent ones who lost their lives during these unfortunate massacres with comfort as they do deserve.

P.S. "Systematicallity" is one of the fundamental attributes of the term "genocide".

[IrishArmenian]

Seamus, Ataturk said something along these lines:
These left-overs from the Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.
Obviously he was aware of the evil.
Again, I have problems with the deportation issue as burning at the stake is often quite deliberate and rarely happens on accident.
The Armenian gangs who attacked Turkish villages after the Hamidian massacres were vile, inhumane people and I know that. By learning the mistakes and crimes of the past, we can better prepare ourselves for the future, yes?
Also, why would a government, meaning to keep the people being relocated alive, choose to relocate the ethnicity in question--one not accustomed to living in the middle of the desert--into the heart of the desert with no water and no food? No one is that stupid. Even politicians know that people need food and water to live. Please explain the extreme malevolence or if you shall play the 'dumb' card, the incomprehensible idiocy that it takes to disregard such basic human necessities.

[LeftEyeNine]

Also, why would a government, meaning to keep the people being relocated alive, choose to relocate the ethnicity in question--one not accustomed to living in the middle of the desert--into the heart of the desert with no water and no food?

Syria was where they were being transported to -somewhere with a coastline and harbor. The conditions and the organization was sick but no one is that stupid to arrange a systematical killing while the whole state is in a condition of absolute war-weariness, poverty and social chaos and despair. Still it is a bad intention trying to see a bad intention beyond this.