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[cannedmoose]

Hopefully that will be soon... then we can have silence on this repetitive thread...

[YeReVaN]

Hopefully.

[garbitsch]

I don't think the Armenians will be ever get satisfied with the recognition of the "genocide". Apparently, most of the Armenian population sees Eastern Turkey as part of their country. They will demand land from the Turkish republic. In the official manifesto of one of the coalition parties in Armenia has a mission to "reunite" the Armenian lands, which are under Turkish "occupation".
Besides, whole Armenian lobby is based on the demand for recognition and I wonder what these people do afterwards? Demanding compensation?

[YeReVaN]

Don't you think that when finally Turks realize that it was indeed a Genocide we deserve compensation? Of course human lives can not be returnes, but we deserve to get what was taked from us.

Then it was the turn of Armenian women, children, and the elderly. On very short notice, they were ordered to pack a few belongings and be ready to leave home, under the pretext that they were being relocated to a non-military zone for their own safety. They were actually being taken on death marches heading south toward the Syrian Desert.

Muslim Turks who assumed instant ownership of everything quickly occupied most of the homes and villages left behind by the rousted Armenians. In many cases, local Turks who took them from their families spared young Armenian children from deportation. The children were coerced into denouncing Christianity and becoming Muslims, and were then given new Turkish names. For Armenian boys the forced conversion meant they each had to endure painful circumcision as required by Islamic custom.

Turkish gendarmes escorted individual caravans consisting of thousands of deported Armenians. These guards allowed roving government units of hardened criminals known as the "Special Organization" to attack the defenseless people, killing anyone they pleased. They also encouraged Kurdish bandits to raid the caravans and steal anything they wanted. In addition, an extraordinary amount of sexual abuse and rape of girls and young women occurred at the hands of the Special Organization and Kurdish bandits. Most of the attractive young females were kidnapped for a life of involuntary servitude.

[garbitsch]

Oh right... compensation.... after that what do you want? Eastern Turkey? Will other European powers pay compensation to the peoples they commit genocides?

[YeReVaN]

Didn't Jews get compensation from Germany? Why should't Armenians? Or is it because Armenian Genocide happened before Jewish Holocaust.

[YeReVaN]

We just back, whatever belongs to us. Nothing more.Whatever is rightfully ours and was taken from us.

[garbitsch]

According to the international law, Turkish Republic is not binded to pay compensation to Armenians...
Answer my question: Will Armenians demand land from Turkey after the recognition of "genocide"?

[YeReVaN]

What international law is that? If Turkey admits to Genocide, it is the law that they have to compensate that nation. In other words give back whatever was taken.
Let me ask you a question. Let's say United States occupies 90% of Turkey tommorow, and Turkey can not get the land back for different reasons for lets say 80 years. So after 80 years you think United Stated should keep that land and call that Turkish land United States?

[YeReVaN]

And please give me the sourse of that international law you were refering to.