Comments by "cchris874" (@cchris874) on "Disturban History" channel.

  1. That's correct, they didn't kill them for hundreds of years, just about 10 or so years between 1894 and 1924.
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  2. Why should any genocide be 100% successful? Why should any human activity? Very few endeavors are perfectly carried, good or bad.
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  3.  @Atilla963  Hello, I am not an expert, and like you, I can only speculate on these claims. Like many complex events, there will likely be a number of factors. From what I have read, the Armenians were far more vulnerable to begin with than the Greeks and other groups: Unlike Greece, they had no mother country to act as a direct advocate and to put pressure on the Turkish government/s to stop the killings. 2nd, unlike the Greeks or Americans, the Armenians were spread out along major swaths of Turkey, and that has been said to be the most threatening element in terms of Turkey's desire to create a Turkish nationalist state. If Armenia demanded independence, it would mean much of Turkey's land being given up. When the major massacres were said to have occurred, Turkey was falling apart at the seems with all of the attacks against it, and there would understandably be fear and paranoia at this point, of the real possibility of the Ottoman Empire crumbling. Indeed the Allied powers were intent on carving up Anatolia after the end of WW 1. When a nation is desperate for its survival, it can encourage extreme behavior.
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  4. There is by now lots of sources of evidence supporting genocide. Are you saying all of it is fake? How would you go about disproving all this evidence?
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  5.  @wilcowen6284  Indeed. Also, there is evidence the Turks used quotas: not more than x percent (I think 5 or 10%) Armenians were to remain.
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  6.  @Atilla963  OK, we can start with some sources: like the NY Times, which wrote almost daily articles describing what was happening in 1915. At the time of the massacres. The NY Times was one of the first places where the term "crimes against humanity" was used. In all some 140 articles on the massacres. It spoke of the "systematic race extermination. . . organized by the government, " "massacres" and "atrocities." Now that's just a single source. Let us stick with it for now. Do you have evidence the NY Times was deliberately lying? If so, please provide a source. Can we deal with one source at a time please?
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