Sunday, October 22, 2006

l'express dimanche-Keeping Turkey Out

"Keeping Turkey Out

Words matter. The Holo-caust of the European Jews during the Second World War was a genocide. The mass deportation of Chechens from their Caucasian homeland during the same war was a crime but not a genocide, even though half of them died, because Moscow’s aim was to keep them from collaborating with German troops who were nearing Chechnya, not to exterminate them. Which brings us to the far more controversial case of the Armenians and the Turks. "

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