In Opinion from Ramsen_ | Genocide Recognition by Itself Is Not Enough
Growing up, I never learned about the Ottoman massacres in the U.S. public education system. As a student, I took initiative to learn about the horrors perpetrated by Ottoman Turks, Persians, and Kurds in the early 1900s. There is power in knowing what happened in the past. It is often said that history repeats itself. By learning about the Armenian-Assyrian-Greek genocide, we can all hope that such history is never repeated again, anywhere.
"Assyrians were assembled into one caravansary, and all shot to death by guns and revolvers. Blood literally flowed in little streams, and the entire open space within the caravansary became a pool of crimson liquid. They were brought in groups, and each new group compelled to stand up over the heap of the still bleeding bodies and was shot to death in the same manner."
An Assyrian child stands on the roof of a small church in Midyat, southeastern Turkey, on Nov. 18, 2014.Eyewitness accounts, like the reverend's, provide necessary details. Why were these specific populations targeted by the government? What was the main objective of the Ottoman Empire? Christians and Indigenous peoples were targeted in an attempt to Turkify all those who lived in modern day Turkey to strip them of their identities.
Those who deny the genocide today are quick to come up with excuses to legitimize crimes against humanity. By teaching this genocide in schools across the country, students will have a better understanding about the events that led to it, and why the Turkish government—successor to the Ottomans—today spends millions of dollars to deny what the Ottomans did. From publishing false books
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