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Boyajian: Turkey’s Henchmen: Mass Media Butcher the Armenian Genocide

Most reporters and other journalists in the mass media failed to do due diligence and misled their audiences regarding last month’s U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee vote in favor of Resolution 252, which would reaffirm the Armenian Genocide of 1915-23.

Nearly all media, prior to and after the vote, falsely said or implied that the House and the federal government had never before recognized the Armenian Genocide.

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David Boyajian

David Boyajian is an Armenian American freelance journalist.

3 Comments

  1. Boyajian’s thought and opinions are always riveting and well worth the read. He can teach the mass media about informed reporting and how to be fair and objective. It is regrettable they remark about important events of which they have little knowledge.

  2. Hye, on Saturday, Turks were demonstrating for  their nation, on Massachusetts Avenue,  denying the Turkish Genocide of the Armenian nation 1915-1923 – even into 2010, defiling the memory of all those who had been slaughtered, raped, burned alive, tortured and worse…
    I joined the Armenians who come to the Turkish Embassy each year in memorium for all those lost to us.  To address the Turkish representatives each year for the need for the Turk to admit their guilt – the Turkish Genocide of the Armenian nation – now recognized the world over – but Turks deny.
    This year, as was begun last year, the Turks had arranged for their ‘representatives’ to be their youths… and a few elderly.  As I watched and read the signs which they’d prepared and were displaying were a disgrace to any civilized society.  One sign read:  “60,000 Turks, Jews and Turks were killed by the Armenians”; another read how pleased they were with Obama’s stance…so  many signs with lies blatantly displayed… these ‘kids’ were so pleased to be there – it was an ‘outing’ for them.   Worse, at some point music was
    heard and then these ‘representatives of their violent nation’ were dancing to the music – a line dance, if you please, and laughing and having fun.  Genocide has not any meaning for these youngsters who are educated to believe the Armenians are enemies of the Turks – no mention of the Armenians having been the victims of the Genocide perpetrated by their own predessors!
    I stood there looking at these misdirected, misinformed young people, their elders just went along…  I pointed to each of their convoluted signs and called to them LIARS, LIARS and then the vile acts began.  Grinning like monkeys in a zoo, they all used their fingers to display where their violent mentality excells. 
    Obama, has defiled the Genocides issue to be  an  issue of no consequence – to be ignored. 
    Genocides!!  Man’s inhumanity to man – of no consequence!
    Genocides, still in effect in Darfur these seven/eight years is now being denied by the Sudanese – of course, and why not?  If the Obama can ignore the Darfurian Genocide, if the Turk can lie and deny for all these years their Genocides of the Armenians, Greeks, Syrians, Assyrians, and more… today the Sudanese choose to also deny slaughtering, raping, and worse the Darfurians.  Obama, incapable of speaking  for the Armenians Genocide, is also incapable of speaking up for the Genocide of the Darfurians!
    Thus these, merry, prepared young  Turks came to the Turkish Embassy in order to have a   joyous and fun time for the Turks to ridicule the serious issue of Genocides –  OR, I wonder, did they know what they had been prepped to do?

    Humanity, regrettably, you have been relegated to the depths as only  Turks can devise, can display without any compunctions – bully! 
    Manooshag

  3. P.S. please correct, in the second paragraph, wherein I mistakenly listed the
    60,000 Turks, Jews and (to be) KURDS… by the absurdity of their ‘sign’… Thanks.  Manooshag

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