A new wave of research into #Genocide is overturning stories about victims going meekly to slaughter.
Resistance was frequent, both among the Armenians (against whom the Turks began a genocide on this day in 1915) and among Jews during the Holocaust.
https://theconversation.com/genocide-resisters-long-overlooked-by-history-step-into-the-spotlight-202311
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#ArmenianGenocide #ArmenianGenocideRemembranceDay #HolocaustRemembranceDay
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"Go ahead, see if you can do anything about it. See if you can stop them from mocking the big ideas of the world, you sons of bitches.
A couple of Armenians talking in the world.
Go ahead and try to destroy them."
-William Saroyan
#armeniangenocideremembranceday #april24
On this Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, here is the Armenian Genocide Martyrs Memorial that was unveiled in #Montebello in April 1968. #ArmenianGenocideRemembranceDay http://armenianmonument.org/monument-overview.html
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#holidays #WorldPinholePhotographyDay, #WorldLabAnimalDay, #WorldMeningitisDay, #NationalPigsInABlanketDay, #NewKidsOnTheBlockDay, #ArmenianGenocideRemembranceDay
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#holidays #WorldPinholePhotographyDay, #WorldLabAnimalDay, #WorldMeningitisDay, #NationalPigsInABlanketDay, #NewKidsOnTheBlockDay, #ArmenianGenocideRemembranceDay
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#Turkiye / #Turkey has a @Wikipedia #twofer on #ArmenianGenocideRemembranceDay.
Featured article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide_denial
#OTD in 1914: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide_Remembrance_Day
#NeverForget
“All hate begins as self-hate.” - Dalai Lama
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24th April is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. It is held annually to commemorate the victims of the Armenian genocide of 1915. It was a series of massacres and starvation of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottomans. In Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, hundreds of thousands of people walk to the Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Memorial to lay flowers at the eternal flame.
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