498) Parliaments Should Refrain From Re-writing History

No Armenian publication, propaganda literature, conference or seminar ever mentions the Armenian massacres of the Turkish and Muslim population by the armed revolutionary committees at the beginning of the 20th century. Otherwise, they would not be able to claim a so-called Armenian genocide. In the kind of genocide Armenians claim, the alleged perpetrators ended up having more dead than the victims! . . .

The history of the Ottoman empire --"the sick man of Europe"-- during the First World War, when it was defending its own lands at three separate fronts against the allied forces is well documented. The existence of Armenian terrorist organizations and revolutionary committees since the late

19th century and their armed rebellions resulting in the massacres of the Turkish population in the eastern provinces, as well as the Armenian cooperation with the Russians whom the Ottomans were fighting against, are also well documented by historians.

It is ironic that Armenians accuse anyone who opposes their allegations of a so-called genocide by exposing the historical facts, as "rewriting history." Yet Armenians are rewriting history more than 90 years later in the parliaments of western countries including Canada by lobbying, donating to election campaigns and influencing politicians. Recently in France, historians declared that parliaments should refrain from passing judgements on history. So should the historians in Canada, or perhaps our MPs have far more expertise than our historians.


Murat Unver
Ottawa, ON

Embassy, January 25th, 2006