Recognise the plight of the Armenians!

Rice urges the Foreign Affairs Committee not to trouble relations with Turkey by ditching a Bill to recognize the genocide of Armenians by the Turks at the beginning of the last century. Earlier this week Turkey arrogantly stated that such a Bill would cause friction in bilateral relations between them and the US.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7038095.stm

Bend it as you like, what happened was not a war or an insurgency or whatever the Turks want us to believe. People were forced out of their homes, made to walk barefooted for hundreds of miles with nails in their feet and summarily killed merely because of their ethnicity (and possibly religion).

Not that the Turks were new to this kind of atrocity, just think of the massacres that occurred in Greece before it became free from the Turkish yoke. Just like then, they refuse to acknowledge any of their faults.

What happened was genocide. The Turks were trying to extirpate and possibly destroy the first Christian nation in history. If that's not genocide, I only wonder what is. With its claims to EU membership and modernisation, Turkey still fails to come to terms with its own history or its internal contradictions.

Do the EU countries want such behavior to go unnoticed at the negotiations table?
Do the US want to condone the denial and falsification of history?
Do we want to submit to the whim of hypocritical rulers who shut themselves in a closet of darkness, blindness, ignorance and deafness?
Do we want to bend our morals and integrity to suit a country that never ceased being, deep in its heart, Islamist and revisionist?

Armenians all over the world are crying out for justice and fairness, to have their plight recognized, to have the memory of their lost kin enshrined alongside those of the millions of innocent victims of blind hate and murderous madness.

If Turkey wants to be modern it has to recognize its past mistakes and learn from them. Otherwise a dangerous precedent will be set that will destroy the EU's moral stance and integrity.

Rice is spitting on the memory of all genocide victims. Excellent foreign policy tactic, Condi.