"::Hi Muz - you must understand that the reasons a genocide was committed shouldn't make anyone feel better about it having happened, any more than you as a Turk should feel personally guilty for what happened before you were born.  It happened.  The government did something against 2 or more million unarmed Armenian civilians and over half of them died.  While I am happy to hear your specific comments on the article, I insist you go back and read ALL the archived discussions (links available at the top of this page) about the article, before you try to raise issues that we have discussed to death already, and great (and painful) length.  In genocide, like in one on one murder, there are no ""two sides to the story"".  It is murder.  It is not oh, well he murdered the slave because he was afraid the slave would get away.  It is true this is not pleasant, but it is what happened, and we need to deal with it in an honest and healthy way so that it can be put firmly in the past and life can go on normally.  The Turkish government cannot even bring itself to establish diplomatic relations with Armenia, who has no preconditions itself...  how ridiculous a situation is this?    

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