"Unearthing the past, endangering the future Oct 18th 2007 | ANKARA, WASHINGTON, DC, AND YEREVAN From The Economist print edition
Turkey votes to invade northern Iraq; Congress considers the Armenian genocide. The two are dangerously connected
STANDING before a blurred photograph of a ditch full of emaciated corpses, an elderly woman begins to cry. “The Turks are butchers,” hisses another. These women are among thousands of diaspora Armenians who travel from all corners of the globe to pay tribute to their dead at the genocide memorial in Yerevan. “Our objective is not to attack this or that country,” explains a grim-faced guide. “It is to ensure recognition of the first genocide of the 20th century, that of 1.5m Armenians by the Turks.”"
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