France dedicates first Armenian genocide commemorations

[Kailash Kumar]

France dedicates first Armenian genocide commemorations

The first major European country to recognize the 1915 massacres as genocide, France has dedicated its first national day of commemoration. The French prime minister led the ceremonies.

24.04.2019

The Komitas memorial to the Armenian genocide

The ceremonies organized in France on Wednesday fulfilled a pledge made by French President Emmanuel Macron during his 2017 election campaign, and confirmed to the country's large Armenian community in February.

In 2001 France became the first major European country to recognise the massacres as genocide and in February, as he announced the national day of remembrance, Macron said France "knows how to look history in the face."

In April 2017, Emmanuel Macron attended a ceremony at the Komitas memorial in Paris

The 1915-1918 killings started on April 24 when thousands of Armenian intellectuals suspected of harboring nationalist sentiments and being hostile to Ottoman rule were rounded up. Memorials have been held around the world to mark the 104th anniversary.

Prime Minister Edouard Philippe is to lead the commemorations by giving a speech and laying flowers at a Monument for the Armenian Genocide erected on the northern bank of the river Seine in April 2003.

Turkish response

Turkey accepts that Armenians living under the Ottoman Empire died, but refutes accusations that the deaths were systematically orchestrated and constitute a genocide. Speaking on Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused France of committing genocide in Rwanda and Algeria.

French MP Jacques Marilossian, a member of Macron's party, said in a TV interview: "We should find a way to tell them we are not blaming Turkey for that [the massacres]. We are blaming the Turkish government in 1915."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1121086129535705090

The US has not named the killings as a genocide. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump issued a statement saying: "Today, we ... honor the memory of those who suffered in one of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th century. Beginning in 1915, one-and-a-half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths in the final years of the Ottoman Empire. On this day of remembrance, we again join the Armenian community in America and around the world in mourning the many lives lost."

https://www.dw.com/en/france-dedicates-first-armenian-genocide-commemorations/a-48467494

 

[Mamadouso]

What about the Algerians, Rwandans, Native Americans, Mexican genocide of indigenous people?

I don’t understand what is special about the Armenians?

 

[S Hussain]

The Armenians are special people because they were apparently massacred by Muslims. I am sure sooner rather than later the West would want the Islamic world to show their solidarity with the Armenians.

From the above tweet it would seem like American Jews are also pushing for the recognition of the Armenian 'genocide'

 

[CAN_TR]

Nobody talks about Ethnic cleansing of Turks in the Balkans, Rhodos, Crete, Eastern Turkey and Karabakh.
Armenians backstabbed the ones who fed them, and get slapped.

Europeans can rip up their own asses as long as they want we will never recognize anything.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

The Armenians are special people because they were apparently massacred by Muslims.

Nope. Ask the Turks here. Stop always seeing everything through the prism of circumcized amd not circumcized. If they [Armenians] were Buddhists this would still be happening. The simple reason is the Armenian diaspora has become only second to Jews in economic, political influence in USA. That enables them [Armenians] to pull the strings and you see the result.

One of the closest countries with Armenia has been Muslim Iran. That country has significant armenian community and relations are good. Thus busting your religious angle. The Turks hate all groups that turned to treachery. Unlike we, who foregave Banglas Turks still have not forgotten those groups who stabbed them in the back, irrespective of being Muslim or not. It's not like a stab in the back from a fellow Muslim is more pleasent then a stab by a kaffir.

Armenians
Kurds
Arabs [Palestinians]
Arabs [Saudi's]
etc

All stabbed the Turks in the back when they were fighting in a death struggle in WW1.

@CAN_TR

 

[Pakhtoon yum]

Someone erect a statue for the native American and Africans France massacred.

 

[Crusher]

Someone erect a statue for the native American and Africans France massacred.

Yes I am also waiting for the day when these hypocrites in France and England will erect commemorations or statues of massacred aboriginals in Austrailia and masaccared native americans in USA in Paris and London.

 

[BHarwana]

Okay so was it Turkey who killed 800,000 in Rawanda?

And was it Turkey who told yellow vest if you come to protest on streets the army will open fire.

 

[war&peace]

These Neanderthals of France should be shown a mirror and the genocides committed by them in North Africa and elsewhere should be highlighted.

 

[Falcon29]

Nope. Ask the Turks here. Stop always seeing everything through the prism of circumcized amd not circumcized. If they [Armenians] were Buddhists this would still be happening. The simple reason is the Armenian diaspora has become only second to Jews in economic, political influence in USA. That enables them [Armenians] to pull the strings and you see the result.

One of the closest countries with Armenia has been Muslim Iran. That country has significant armenian community and relations are good. Thus busting your religious angle. The Turks hate all groups that turned to treachery. Unlike we, who foregave Banglas Turks still have not forgotten those groups who stabbed them in the back, irrespective of being Muslim or not. It's not like a stab in the back from a fellow Muslim is more pleasent then a stab by a kaffir.

Armenians
Kurds
Arabs [Palestinians]
Arabs [Saudi's]
etc

All stabbed the Turks in the back when they were fighting in a death struggle in WW1.

@CAN_TR

Palestinians were under control of Ottomans while the revolt happened, it was Jordanian/Hejazi/Syrian Arabs who did the revolt. You keep spreading off topic misinformation on threads.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

French have enslaved half of africa , they really should not be celebrating

 

[Nein]

When Ottoman soldiers froze to death thanks to Armenian traitors who cut off the supply lines.

If people dont realise it was a war and both sides did massacres but it is not a genocide. If the armenians won the Turks would have been killed and kicked out while an armenian state built on the ruins of Muslim Turks.

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

Will France build a memorial for the more than million Algerians they raped and massacred during their bloody occupation?

Turkey should build a memorial in Algeria for their genocide by French occupiers.

All African, Muslim, Asian, and sympathetic countries should be invited for this grand event.

Tit for tat.

Pakistan should help also, if possible as these French are liable to build BD genocide memorials with Modi too.

Followed also with official support for yellow jackets.

 

[Vergennes]

Will France build a memorial for the more than million Algerians they raped and massacred during their bloody occupation?

Turkey should build a memorial in Algeria for their genocide by French occupiers.

All African, Muslim, Asian, and sympathetic countries should be invited for this grand event.

Tit for tat.

Pakistan should help also, if possible as these French are liable to build BD genocide memorials with Modi too.

Followed also with official support for yellow jackets.

"Ironically",the Turks (or whoever) keep talking about Algeria however they themselves colonized what's known as current Algeria,committed themselves many atrocities,especially in Kabylie and even voted against Algeria's independence. (later abstained during another vote)

Either you call it both bad or you don't do it at all.

 

[Rusty]

France has one of the world's worst human rights record.
They are responsible for the genocide of 100s of millions of people... yet here we are... Muslims bad!!!!