Armenia & The Armenians
APRIL 24. ARMENIAN MARTYRS' DAY
On April 24, 1915 the Turkish government systematically put into
action a diabolical, atrocious plan of extermination of all the Armenians
living in Turkey and the Turkish dominated Armenian provinces.
It was all well timed and planned. World War I was on; Turkey
was an ally of Germany; other European nations could not intervene in
protest. Consequently the Turks put their savage plan into action and
1.5 million defenseless and helpless Armenian men, women and children
perished by massacres, famine, and death marches through the desert. Those who
managed to escape took refuge in Europe, in the Tsarist Russian zone of
occupied Armenia, in the friendly Arab lands, the United States and the
Latin American countries.
At the conclusion of the war and in the notable absence of a War
Crimes Tribunal, in the form of the Nuremberg Trials -- instituted at the
Termination of WWII -- the perpetrators of the most spine-chilling
crimes of the century, were pursued and tracked down by dedicated,
vengeful and avowed patriots of the A.R.F. and assassinated in the
streets of the various countries, where they had fled from Turkey for
refuge, with the burden of their incalculable, colossal guilt; dragging
along with them the full responsibility of the despicable and hideous
crimes they had committed against a peace loving productive nation.
After weeks of close observation and meticulous monitoring of
this movement, the protagonist and monster architect of this genocide, the
super criminal and hyena, the Interior Minister of the then Turkish
government, Talaat Pasha, the arch enemy of the Armenian race was on the
fateful day of March 15, 1921, felled down, with a single bullet in his
beastly brain, from the pistol of an Armenian national hero -- the
youthful Soghomon Tehlirian, in a Berlin Street -- in the assumed safety
of the capital of Turkey's powerful ally.
After his arrest and lengthy trial, Tehlirian -- the sole survivor
of his exterminated family -- was pronounced NOT GUILTY by the German
High Court, amid tumultuous public applause and jubilation. Indeed the
Court upheld the defense plea that in the unearthly circumstances
surrounding that particular murder, Tehlirian's action was nothing but
JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE, on behalf of his entire wiped out family, and his
Armenian compatriots -- the victims of the first genocide of the
twentieth century.
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