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Cargando... Children of Armenia: A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-long Struggle for Justicepor Michael Bobelian
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Around the time of the first World War, the Armenians were expelled from their homeland, whole families and villages were massacred. It was the Ottoman Empire's attempt to erase the Armenian people. They were only partially successful, while there is no longer an Armenian homeland, a place they can call their own, there are groups of Armenian people still living in the world. April 24 has been designated as the day Armenians commemorate the genocide. I don't remember the exact term for the celebration, I am using the word celebration with the meaning "the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual". In this account Mr. Bobelian starts with this celebration then goes on to tell how he knows about it (he's Armenian) and how the world forgot that the Turks tried to exterminate the Armenians and the reasons for it. The Turkish people deny it ever happened, many countries, including my own, refuse to call what happened a genocide. That hasn't stopped the Armenian people from looking for recognition. And this article by Stephen Zunes explains why it is important to remember and acknowledge the event by its proper name. In a nutshell he says, "Those who forget history are doomed to forget it." The proof of that is in what happened to the Jews in WWII, the Chinese at Nanking and the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994. This book doesn't tell of the genocide in great detail, but does explain what happened after, explaining the injustice committed against the Armenian people and the efforts being made to right this great wrong. There was a lot of political discussion in this book, and while I feel it was necessary it was a little boring to me. If I could skim I would probably have given the book a better rating. That being said I do recommend this book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
From 1915 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire drove the Armenians from their ancestral homeland and slaughtered 1.5 million of them in the process. While there was an initial global outcry and a movement led by Woodrow Wilson to aid the "starving Armenians," the promises to hold the perpetrators accountable were never fulfilled. In this groundbreaking work, Michael Bobelian profiles the leading players--Armenian activists and assassins, Turkish diplomats, U.S. officials-- each of whom played a significant role in furthering or opposing the century-long Armenian quest for justice in the face of Turkish denial of its crimes, and reveals the events that have conspired to eradicate the "forgotten Genocide" from the world's memory. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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April 24 has been designated as the day Armenians commemorate the genocide. I don’t remember the exact term for the celebration, I am using the word celebration with the meaning “the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual”. In this account Mr. Bobelian starts with this celebration then goes on to tell how he knows about it (he’s Armenian) and how the world forgot that the Turks tried to exterminate the Armenians and the reasons for it. The Turkish people deny it ever happened, many countries, including my own, refuse to call what happened a genocide. That hasn't stopped the Armenian people from looking for recognition. And this article by Stephen Zunes explains why it is important to remember and acknowledge the event by its proper name. In a nutshell he says, “Those who forget history are doomed to forget it.” The proof of that is in what happened to the Jews in WWII, the Chinese at Nanking and the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994.
This book doesn’t tell of the genocide in great detail, but does explain what happened after, explaining the injustice committed against the Armenian people and the efforts being made to right this great wrong. There was a lot of political discussion in this book, and while I feel it was necessary it was a little boring to me. If I could skim I would probably have given the book a better rating. That being said I do recommend this book ( )