Lubna Abdel Aziz
The loudest voice expressing outrage came from Turkey, in
which case one can only call it laughable! Remember the Armenians?
Last week the Armenians commemorated the 99th anniversary of the
massacre of their race by the Turks in 1915. It was called Red Sunday--April
24, 1915. Slowly, silently, in the dark of night, all the Armenian
intellectuals and community leaders were rounded up and executed en masse. The
date is known as ‘Genocide Remembrance Day’, and that was only the beginning.
While the Turkish government offered its condolences to the Armenians of this
painful tragedy of mammoth proportions, the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
dared to reject the charges of an Armenian Genocide. In his rigid immobility he
appeared hardly human as he described it ‘as exaggerated accounts’ of those
‘enemies of the Ottoman Empire’ and ‘casualties of a world war’ that did not
exceed 500,000… as if that were a trifling number of humans. Is he ever
conscious of his lack of humanity. “We are a people who think genocide is a
crime against humanity”, said the Turkish PM, “and we would never turn an eye
to such blind action”. Is there a magic
to vice that is irresistible? Who should be outraged now?
