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Quote by: rmnunez  I think we should officially recognize the suffering endured by the Armenians in their genocide, just that it isn't very opportune right now.
Condemning the Turks for what happened about a century ago right now has more to do with interfering with their cooperation in the effort in Iraq than anything else. Fortunately the bill is losing support: |
I agree, recognition is definitely over-due, but you are also correct that is not the right time.
Nevertheless, the Aremian genocide was a motivating factor for creating Aremian after teh collaspe of the Soviet Union. There were locals in the area, Azerbaijanis people who were driven from their homes and a separate state of Azerbaijan 2 years after Aremia was created. The Aremians were Christians and the Azerbaijanis were Muslims. They went to war over land disputes. Azerbaijan was created, but there was never a right of return enacted. In fact Aremia has relatively no Azerbaijanis in their country and vice versa.
This Aremian/Azerbaijani conflict have striking similarities to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict (and yes some striking differences). Ethnic peoples displacement, recent declaration of independence, victims of a genocide, unfair and brutal treatment by the Soviets, a region in which the countries' border were recently drawn up by a super-power at after the fall of an empire, a blood war erupted shortly after the birth if its nation etc. Yet no one ever questions the Soviet's decisions to create an independent Aremian, nor no one calls for a right of return for the Azerbaijanis.
I think this largely has to do with the fact that the Aremians are Christians and the Israelis are Jews! Also because the inhabitants (other than Russia) do not have large oil reserves for the West. Also some could be attributed to Israel has a lot to do with the origins of the 3 Abrahamic religions!