The G word

The history of Armenia is described by reference to invasions. The Greeks, the Romans, the Mongols, Tamerlane, the Ottomans, Czarist Russia, the Brits and the Soviets have all have had their way with Armenia. The Armenians have failed to be assimilated because they have refused to give up their language, writing and church. As a result they have been severely persecuted, disbursed throughout the world, culminating in the Turkish genocide of 1915, where over 1 1/2 million Armenians were killed. During the Soviet occupation, Armenians were prohibited from speaking of the genocide. In 1988, as the USSR was becoming unstable, Armenians began demonstrating. As a result this Genocide Memorial was built.
The Turks still deny that genocide occurred. The US and Britain still do not call it genocide.


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