The Armenian Genocide
It's the 100-year anniversary - a very sad anniversary - of the Armenian genocide. Even today, the Turks refuse to accept that it was a deliberate attempt to wipe a people off the face of the Earth. Not unlike Japanese refusal to accept their nation's responsibility for atrocities committed by Japanese forces during WWII. Here's a link to a thoughtful piece about HOW these actions occur - afterwards, too many people have trouble understanding just how a seemingly civilized nation could possibly be complicit - even directing - deliberate murder, rape, and attempted annihilation of their own citizens, based on cultural/religious factors. In 1915, radio was in its infancy and few in Turkey were literate; most government messages of demonization were spread by word of mouth. According to Vahagan Dadrian , an historian of the Armenian genocide, the vilification of the Armenians was spread mainly through sermons by mullahs and by town criers who sprinkled the news about Armeni...