El genocidio armenio
No sé si sabéis de este hecho histórico del pasado siglo, negado oficialmente por Turquía. Se trata de la eliminación planificada de la población armenia residente en Turquía:
The year 1915 was the pivotal year in almost three decades of violence inflicted on the Armenian inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire. Because of the vast scale and centrally planned strategy of the killings, most historians agree that this was genocide. Armenians themselves have called it their “Golgotha”.
Estas son las cifras del genocidio:
Del total de los 2 millones de armenios que vivían en le antiguio imperio otomano, murieron 1,5 millones, 250.000 sobrevivieron a la huida y de los otros tantos que se quedaron, 200,000 tuvieron que convirtirse al Islam. Sacrificados como animales, ojo a este detalle:
When 8,000 Armenians were killed in Urfa in December 1895, the young men were killed by the traditional ritual Islamic method for slaughtering animals. They were thrown on their backs, held by their hands and feet, and then their throats slit while a prayer was recited.
Recuerda a la “fiesta del cordero”, que debería ser denunciada por repugnante por esos defensores de los derechos de los animales, aunque no me consta que se hayan molestado en hacerlo. Hace unos días reseñamos esta anotación de las Crónicas de Solón que reproduce el artículo de Pilar Rahola sobre esa fiesta, transmitida por la tele catalana. Un detalle bonito, algunos musulmanes de Siria acogieron a grupo de ellos -gracias, hermanos, tiene mucho mérito- y hoy hacen 60,000:
The remnant who stumbled past Aleppo towards Damascus found shelter in the villages between Aleppo and Homs. The Muslim Arabs living there welcomed in the persecuted Christian Armenians even though they were different in both race and religion. Today there is a community of some 60,000 Armenians in the Aleppo area.
El Gólgota trae nueva vida:
As a result of the persecution, Armenians are now scattered across the world in approximately 195 different countries, just as the first century Christians in Jerusalem were scattered by persecution (Acts 8:1). Many Armenians live in the Muslim-majority countries of the Middle East, Turkey, Iran etc. and also in the West. As the Jerusalem Christians fled they shared the Gospel (Acts 8:4), and Armenians likewise are Christian witnesses in the lands to which they have fled.
Los turcos siguen negando el genocidio o culpan a los armenios de traición. Tampoco creo que Zapatero exija a la contraparte de su Alianza de Civilizaciones que reconozca pecados pasados… a el solo le parecen mal as Cruzadas.
Puedes leer más en este artículo del Barnabas Fund: The Armenian Golgotha. Es una bonita lectura oara la tarde del domingo.
