Something's Wrong With Armenian Chain
Poster by Ruben Malayan asking for recognition of Turkish genocide over Armenians, missing a link and having a questionable one instead.
This discovery was a great disappointment. Armenians, although Oriental Orthodox, are regarded as brothers to Serbs who also suffered greatly under the Turkish yoke for five centuries. Many Serbs have been very vocal in demanding the monstrosities Armenians have been exposed to and the gruesome murder of over 1,5 million of men, women and children by the Ottomans to be remembered. I have even attacked Oprah for omitting to mention Armenian genocide on her holocaust special! True, I've never been an Oprah fan, so it didn't take much from me, but at least I didn't FORGET Armenian suffering and tremendous losses!
Than I found the site with beautiful posters for sale, asking the world to recognize the Armenian plight and just when I thought I should spread the word and advertise the good cause further, I noticed the poster above: The Dark Chain of Human History, showing the genocides committed in the 20th century with a missing link to the beastly murder of over 750,000 Serbs from 1941-1945 by Croat Ustashas in concentration camps of Jasenovac, Stara Gradiska and dozens of others, including pits, gorges and mass graves throughout present-day Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina! It isn't there! According to this graphic designer and those who sponsored his work, Orthodox Serbs were not victims of genocide, they just perpetrated one - over Bosnian Muslims (I'm surprised the poster doesn't quote the imperial and Muslim media word-by-word: “up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys” -- if you want to be politically correct why not go all the way?!) It's a shame one has to say that, but it would be nice if some Armenians asking the world to acknowledge their losses would learn some history other than their own and also a little something about discernment between the friends or natural allies and a proven common enemy.
Are the Armenians that Serbia accepted with open arms as refugees, those who ran with bare lives to their Christian brothers from sure death the only ones who know what Serbs had to endure in the last century, including the wars in the nineties? What happens with people once they move to West and start enjoying the freedom and peace? They obviously don't forget entirely who they are, but they either turn stupid or become calculating to the extent they figure it's best to be safe by regurgitating the prevailing myths and go with the crowd. That's the way you lose your old friends, without gaining any new ones. In a mindless attempt to be accepted by joining the chorus of Holier Than Thou finger-pointing ignoramuses, they also lose the moral compass and the basic human decency.
Is Ruben expecting to have his poster accepted by the Muslims too, now that he joined the crowd-pleasers by slandering the Serbs with the same unproven, completely-unsupported-by-the-evidence genocide label? Does he think Muslims, including the Turks, will now also buy, frame and hang his poster above their beds? He can rest assured: they won't, but neither will most of the Eastern Orthodox Christians, his quickly forgotten and cheerfully betrayed brothers.
What a shame - Ruben and the rest, shame on you! Shame on you for failing to learn anything from your own history!
Comments
Svetlana,
Curious that I stumble on your post by searching my own name on Google. You are accusing me of not including "beastly murder of over 750,000 Serbs from 1941-1945 by Croat Ustashas in concentration camps of Jasenovac, Stara Gradiska and dozens of others, including pits, gorges and mass graves throughout present-day Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina!"? I can promise you that I will research the information on the Serbian genocide and make the necessary corrections to the work if there is universally academic acceptance of your version of events.
Posted by: Ruben Malayan | July 17, 2006 01:11 PM
Thank you for taking the time to comment, Ruben. Unfortunately, this is not simply “my version of events” - much of the information about the genocide committed on Serbs by the Independent State of Croatia during WWII is well known throughout the world and widely accessible on the Internet.
The basic web search for keywords Jasenovac (the third most “productive” WWII concentration camp), Ustasha, Poglavnik (Croatian Fuhrer) Pavelic, Stepinac, etc. will yield a rich source of information.
I would also recommend some specialized web sites created by the Western experts that focus on Ustasha monstrosities committed in the name of cleansing Croatia of Serbian “schismatics,” like: Jasenovac, Pavelic Papers, or United States Holocaust Museum's chapter about Jasenovac.
There are also many books with thoroughly researched and documented genocide Serbs were exposed to, among them Genocide in Satellite Croatia, American Institute for Balkan Affairs, Chicago, 1961. (by Edmund Paris); Church and State in Yugoslavia since 1945, Cambridge University Press, London, 1979. (by Stella Alexander); The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican, by Prof. Vladimir Dedijer.
This is all in case you do not accept or believe the documentation of Serbian Orthodox Church, which keeps meticulous records of its victims and celebrates those who have been washed in their own blood in this mass-slaughter as Serbian New Martyrs (documentation published by the Church regarding this is Martyrdom of the Serbs, Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese for the United States and Canada, 1943.) Serbian Church's site dedicated to this genocide is Jasenovac - Donja Gradiska.
Regarding “widely accepted” claim of “up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys” killed in Srebrenica, I would suggest further research into the:
1. Definition of genocide;
2. Lack of evidence regarding numbers (i.e. around 2,000 bodies only have been uncovered in and around Srebrenica in the last eleven years since the Bosnian war ended, and they include Serbs and Muslims killed in the area during the fierce fighting for couple of years prior to the alleged genocide);
3. Crimes of Muslim warlord Naser Oric, who used Srebrenica “safe haven” status to attack Serbian villages (close to 200 of them) in the area from 1992-1995.
Just to make sure that last link truly belongs on your holocaust-chain.
Regards,
Svetlana
Posted by: Svetlana | July 17, 2006 02:00 PM
Dear Svetlana,
thank you so much for spotting Ruben's "politically correct" site which omits the genocide committed against the Serbs.
I am really surprised that Ruben found out so quickly your web site, but, when preparing his site on Armenian and other genocides, he failed to use the useful Google tool to thoroughly search for genocides in recent European history.
I have signed every Armenian petition protesting Turkey's distortion of Armenian genocide history and I do not regret it. I'll support, whenever I can, the Armenian cause because I think it's a valid cause and because I hate playing politically correct games with human suffering. Ruben, obviously, thinks that political correctness takes precedence and I don't expect that he will do a research and check "your version of events” (I find his formulation very offensive) and post any info on the Ustashes' crimes on his web site.
Keep up the good work,
Mirjana
Posted by: Mirjana Petrovic | July 18, 2006 07:25 AM