Join my phone campaign to demand your representative recognize the Armenian Genocide

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Laudable, but as long as Turkey is considered a strong NATO

Ally...it ain't gonna happen.

Yup, this came from a former state dept critters in 1992 when this was brought to discussion when I ran an event on Genocide in College. We did skip the well known one and concentrated on the less known ones.

One of the presenters was a former state dept analyst who went into all the politics behind it, and why the US cannot afford to...no matter how many campaigns are run by citizens.

Oh and we had in the paperwork that we were going to not cover the Holocaust, a member of the community, and survivor herself, went after me for being..you guessed it, into holocaust denial...which given the intro based on my dad's experience in Poland had the rest of us shaking heads. But I made that decision since you can't swing a dead cat without finding references to the Holocaust...Armenia, not so much.

We decided instead to cover in depth the Armenian holocaust, Cambodia, the little we knew of Bosnia, the Central American Wars and the Maya genocide, as well as both Chile's and Argentina's dirty wars, that skirt the definition of it. We also went into the African mess, which admittedly we knew precious little.

Just bringing this note, not as cold water, but a reality check. At the end of that we did send letters and all that...hey at least Mont is facing the music over the Maya genocide, but Guatemala is almost a non player in international affairs.