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It's an old phenomenon: When the dispossessed get clout, the past becomes a battleground. Often the stakes in the present are extraordinarily high.

An exemplary skirmish over very bad history is taking place in the U.S. Congress -- in this case, the World War I slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Turkey.

Whether or not the Ottomans' mass deportation and murder of Armenians in 1915 and 1916 reaches the formulaic, industrial magnitude of the Nazis' genocide or Stalin's deci... Read More

What if
the Armenian genocide resolution is voted down in the US congress

What if
the turks keep denying history and continue teaching Turkish schoolchildren that more Turks than Armenians died in a “conflict”.

What if
this resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide of 1915 is brought up again for vote in another year (in another time).

what if
the turkish govenment in its hysteria reacts the same way to the proposed resoluti... Read More

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!!!!!!!!!!! HI PLEASE VOTE, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the world has to know what happened in 1915!

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Armenian sway over US lawmakers

By Laura Smith-Spark
BBC News, Washington

Despite a direct appeal by US President George W Bush, lawmakers in the US have backed a description of the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks after 1915 as genocide.

Armenian refugees attend a burial in a deportation camp 1915 (picture taken by German photographer Armin Wegner; reproduced here by permission of the Armenian National Institute)
The issue of what ha... Read More

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