Armenian genocide scholarship

The assessment of 1.0-1.5 million Armenians perishing in the WW1 Armenian Genocide comes from major scholarly sources e.g. 
1. One of the world's top genocide experts, Professor Colin Tatz, Director of the Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia e.g. in his article "Genocide in Australia" [Google search for this phrase for link) in which he analyzes the 20th century Racist White Australian forcible removal of 0.1 million Indigenous Children from their mothers, he refers thus to the Armeanian Genocide: "There has been an emotional, even an hysterical, response, to the word genocide. This century has seen several particularly well-documented episodes of the removal of children. The Turks killed close to 1.5 million of their Armenian citizens between 1915 and 1923. One "choice" for Armenian parents was to save their Christian children by "giving" them to Turkish Muslim families. Turkey ferociously denies these events and rejects all talk of restitution. Of importance in our context is the origin of Article II (e) in the Convention. Certainly Lemkin, Donnedieu de Vabres and the other drafters of the Convention didn't seek to include "the forcible removal of children from one group to another group" on the basis of the Jewish experience. Jewish children had no such Armenian choice. Clearly they had the latter's case in mind. They may have had a thought for the 200,000 Polish children who were taken by Nazis to Germany to be raised as physically desirable Aryans. Again, they may have been well aware of the Swiss practice of removing Romani (Gypsy) children over the decades. Both Raphael Lemkin and the United Nations (especially the Greek delegate, Vallindis) ensured that removal of children, and hence their disappearance through assimilation, was a (physical) genocidal act." 
 
2. A classic book on genocide is that by Frank Chalk. and Kurt Jonassohn (1990), The History and Sociology of Genocide. Analyses and Case Studies (Yale University Press, New Haven). The authors state unequivocally in their preface to the chapter of the Armenian Genocide (pp249-289) that, QUOTE : “The genocide of the Armenians in 1915 was the first of the modern ideologically-motivated genocides” and indicates that of 2.1 million Ottoman Empire Armenians only 0.6 million escaped death. Others use a rough figure of about 1 million victims. 
 
What is clear is that a 3,000 year old community in Turkish Anatolia was completely destroyed - an Armenain Genocide that is still being DENIED by Turkish Governments - and is also being DENIED as a genocide by the racist, war criminal, mass murderering, genocidal Bush Administration, notably by Bush and Dr Rice (Dr Death).

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