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UN suspends exhibit on Rwanda genocide, over Armenian killings
Apr 10, 2007, 18:47 GMT
New York - A photography exhibition on the massacre of 800,000 Rwandans in 1994 was suspended Tuesday after Turkey protested that it carried a mention of the massacre of Armenians after World War I.
The photographs were shown in a lobby at UN headquarters. But a Turkish diplomat discovered a caption explaining the meaning of genocide, citing the case of Armenians murdered in Turkey.
Turkey denies that the killing of up to one million Armenians constituted genocide, putting their deaths down to ethnic strife, disease and famine, and has prosecuted some historians for calling it genocide.
The UN said Tuesday it decided to call off the show while the dispute was being settled.
The massacre of ethnic Tutsis in Rwanda, which was incited by the Hutu-led government in Kigali following the death of their leader in a plane crash in April, 1994, has been branded a genocide and condemned by the international community.
The victims were slaughtered within three months while a UN peacekeeping mission stood by under orders not to get involved - the result of a restrictive mandate provided by the UN Security Council in New York.
The Rwanda genocide exhibition had been planned to move to Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania after New York. It was uncertain whether that plan still stood.
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Armenian Genocide is a FACT!Apr 10th, 2007 - 22:42:19
It is ironic that a NATO exhibit on Genocide gets pulled because of complaints by a true Genocide perpetrator. The Turks in 1915 systematically killed 1.5 million Armenian men, women and children and stole all of their lands. The Armenian Genocide is a well documented fact. There are thousands of pages written in our own U.S national archives as well as archives all across the world. There are eye witness accounts of our own diplomats in Turkey in regard to the Armenian Genocide. The Armenians had been there for 3000 years and were wiped out within a few short years.
The cowardly Turks, in order to escape any punishment or justice i.e.; compensation and the idea that modern day Turkey was founded by genocidal perpetrators, today teaches their own such lies as, the Armenians were traitors; That equal numbers on both sides died; That the number is inflated; That it was a time of war; They use any excuse to weasel out of any responsibility. They even pay handsomely to a few historical mercenaries like Bernard Lewis or Justin McCarthy to do Turkey's dirty work and deny the Genocide.
The International Association of Genocide Scholars unanimously agrees that it was genocide. The grand majority of western historians agree it was genocide. When will NATO stop cowering to the wishes of a true genocide perpetrator like Turkey? Would they pull the exhibit if a few Holocaust deniers complained? Ironically they otherwise are just asking for history to repeat itself.
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