Leave History to Historians Not Politicians

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Turkey 'ready to confront its history' says parliament speaker

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Historians should explore the "Armenian genocide claims", not politicians, said Cemil Cicek.
World Bulletin / News Desk

The claims of Armenian genocide were on the agenda for a meeting held between Turkish Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek and U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Tuesday.

Last week, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a bill affirming Armenian allegations of genocide in 1915, during the First World War.

Cicek said that the world's parliaments should focus on the present and the future, whereas history should be left to the historians. He stressed, referring to the Armenian genocide claims, "We are ready to confront our history."

House Speaker Boehner also drew attention to the approved bill regarding the 1915 incidents, adding that the Senators involved are law-makers and not historians. Pointing to his 24 years-duty at the U.S. House of Representatives, Boehner said that Armenian genocide claims have added to the agenda of House of Representatives from time to time.

"Our Congress will not get involved in this issue, we are not writing history, we are also not historians," said Boehner.

Turkey 'ready to confront its history' says parliament speaker | General | Worldbulletin News

 

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Who are these historians?
It's always been the winners who wrote history.

 

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Who are these historians?
It's always been the winners who wrote history.

Among many documents in foreign archives which are often ignored or concealed, a document in Russia’s official archives shows Armenians carried out mass killings in 1915. The 65 page report was written by Russian Brigadier General Leonid Bolkhovinitov, who was stationed in the Caucasus front, and dispatched to the Russian military headquarters on December 11, 1915 and titled “The Real Situation.”

It constitutes a follow-up to a report submitted to the Russian Tsar by Armenians on “The Activities of the Armenian Voluntary Bands in the Caucasus.” Bolkhovinitov says in his report that “Armenian voluntary units had started violent slaughters against the Muslim people with racist motives,” and that Armenian reports given to the Russians did not reflect the actual situation in the region. The Russian official states in his report that “We shall not believe in the death tolls that the Armenians give. The number of missing people has been constantly exaggerated in the memos distributed by the Dashnak party and there is no doubt that they are politically-motivated.”

Bolkhovinitov’s report also underlines that the history of the events which he dubs the “Armenian Problem” go back to 1890. Some of the important findings Bolkhovinitov lists in his report are:

• European diplomats imposed the ideas of an “Independent Armenia” on the Armenians. Armenian intellectuals in spreading seditious ideology among Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and designed the plan of shedding enough blood to bring about European intervention.
• Armenian terrorist organizations waged violence not only against Ottoman Muslims but also against Armenians who did not cooperate with them.
• Armenian voluntary bands engaged in brutal massacres against the Muslim population in the occupied areas; ethnically cleansed the Muslim population regardless of gender and age, plundered and destroyed the villages. These actions are systematic.

According to Bolhovitinov’s report, Armenian voluntary bands who joined the Russian forces during World War I wreaked havoc on the civilian population of Anatolia. The report includes photographs of the notorious Armenian “Kazar” and “Sepuh” bands, which, according to Bolhovitinov, not even the Russians were able keep under control.

Given the fact that Russia and the Ottomans were enemies during the late 1910′s and the report is written by a high level Russian official on the ground in the conflict area, it increases the importance of the report.

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