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Saturday, April 20, 2019

Genocide is defined as the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, religious, political, or ethnic group.  The word, from the Greek genos, meaning “race,” “nation,” or “tribe,” and the Latin cide, meaning “killing,” originated from the tragic events in the Middle East during the end of the Ottoman empire from 1910 to 1933, which called for a legal concept to describe the deliberate destruction of large groups.

Holocaust is defined as the deliberate and systematic destruction by fire of a racial, religious, political, or ethnic group.  The word derives from the Greek holos, meaning “whole” and kaustos, meaning “burnt”.

From 1843 to 1945, the Turks, Kurds, Arabs and Persians committed genocides against the Assyrian nation and other Christian peoples in Asia Minor [Middle East].  These international human rights violations were crimes against humanity and served as examples for future atrocities of this manner against the Jewish people in Europe.  In these genocides, 750,000 indigenous Christian Assyrians living in their ancestral homelands (known today as the republics of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran), including 1½ million Christian Armenians and 300,000 Hellenes were burned, slaughtered, and shot systematically.  Defenseless men, women, children, and the elderly became victims of these genocides.

News: Armenian, Assyrian and Hellenic Genocide News (AAHGN)

Belmont, Massachusetts Library Spotlights Armenian Titles in April Sabri Atman interviews Mr. Harut Sassounian, Publisher, California Courier Why Russia needs Armenia and vice versa Turkish Event at Lexington, Mass. Library Draws Armenians and Controversy President Donald J. Trump Signed H.R. 390 into Law (Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018) Blundering American Ambassadors Unmask the War on Terror Prof. Hannibal Travis Speaks on the Assyrian, Armenian, Greek, and Yezidi Genocides No to the Anti-Defamation League in Glendale and Elsewhere Armenia’s People-Power Revolution, Russia, and the Western Bloc Book Review: The Genocide of the Greeks in Turkey Lucine Kasbarian Reveals the Power of Political Cartoons in Changing Hearts, Minds and History Erasing Assyrians: How the KRG Abuses Human Rights, Undermines Democracy, and Conquers Minority Homelands Petition Launched to Include all Greeks in Genocide Recognitions Pro-Turkish Journalist Stephen Kinzer’s Assault on the Armenian Genocide and Armenians The Alexander Lapshin Case: Extradited and Imprisoned in Azerbaijan over Telling the Truth about Nagorno-Karabakh Richard Hoagland is the Wrong American for the Karabagh/Artsakh Talks A David & Goliath Story in Iraq: An Interview with Filmmaker David Ritter HAVRESC: Stand on Courage An Armenian American Group Caves in to the Anti-Defamation League Tehlirian’s Specter Returns: Germany’s Lower House Artfully Acknowledges and Regrets Armenian Genocide News: Armenian, Assyrian and Hellenic Genocide News Archives