Bill Clinton Quotes

The hatred of the right wing Croats and Serbs is so great for each other, that these two Christian groups find it hard fo have any sort of communication and accommodation of each others. In addition to the traditional religious enmity, during WWII, the Croats were Nazi Allies and created and ran a concentration camp where Serbs were killed and abused.

The amazing thing about this quotation of 1913 is that at the end of the 20th century the Christians were again at the Muslims throats and Bosnian Muslims were being murdered and ethnically cleansed by the Roman Catholics of Croatia and the Eastern Orthodox Christians of Serbia. The hatred had persisted—the legacy of 1000 years before.

At the time very few national leaders and still fewer politicians were willing to even criticize McCarthy or his methods. Flanders, in a great example of political courage, did so.

After the Russian Revolution he fought both the Whites and the Reds. He finally lost to the Reds and was banished. Both the Red and White armies went on pogroms and attacked Jews. The Whites were the worst and did so with the complicity of their officers by and large. The Reds, under Symon Petliura issued orders {617892} against pogroms but didn’t enforce it much. Makhno’s troops had some minor anti-Semitic activity but he disciplined them harshly. Specifically he had them shot. None the less, the few incidents were publicized by both the Reds and the Whites who were themselves engaged in the worst anti-Semitic behavior used their exaggeration as propaganda against Makhno and his army.

Mehmet Talaat Pasha. This incredible quotation not only proves Talaat and the Young Turk Government was driving the extermination policy, but also admits that complete genocide was the policy. Talaat’s bizarre logic was this: We have killed so many Armenians that any remaining will certainly want revenge. Therefore, we have to exterminate them all lest they attempt to obtain justice at the expense of the Turks or even exact revenge against the Turks. The U. S. Ambassador was horrified at the Armenian genocide, and was constantly arguing with the Turkish officials to get them to modify their murderous policies. The Christian Armenians, a minority in Turkey and its lands, were discriminated against like other non Muslim minorities in the Ottoman Empire. But during the Turkish War with Russia and WWI, some Armenians defected and served on the Russian side. Many Turkish citizens took revenge on Armenians by means of murder and torture. Soon, the extermination of the Armenians became the official “Young Turk” government policy. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians were killed outright, and about an equal number were “deported” to special areas. Many died of malnutrition along the forced march of Ethnic Cleansing. Others were murdered as they were deported. No one knows exactly how many Armenians were killed with estimates ranging from ½ million to 4 million. This was the first genocide of the 20th century. Modern Turkish leaders however, are in denial about the Armenian deaths. They claim that there was a war and food was scarce; the only Armenians killed, the claimed were proven Russian agents. They further claim that the Armenian behavior was in large part responsible for the forced deportations because of their lack of patriotism and unwillingness to help the Turkish authorities identify the Russian agents. Most Turks today are unaware of the Armenian Genocide as nothing is taught about the massacres in schools or other institutions. It is against the law in Turkey to even have an intellectual study of the Turkish behavior towards the Armenians, much less publish anything about it.