This poem is dedicated to my 1.5 million Armenian brothers and sisters who were murdered in cold blood in 1915 by the evil Turkish government. Til this day, this Genocide is still largely unrecognised. As the new millennium approaches, you have to start wondering if it ever will be!!!
Victims Of Inhumanity
Who thought it up?
To make a hell
Where Eden was
In Mount Ararat's shade...
Lord,
Don't you hear
The red news of massacre and blood?
-Siamanto (Adom Yarjanian)
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Dear Friends,
I am writing to ask for your participation in a special benefit concert
on November 4th
- right at election time - to draw media attention and provide funds for
legislation in
Congress on the Armenian Genocide.
The genocide of the Armenians - the brutal deaths of 1.5 million Armenians
at the
hands of the Government of Turkey between 1915 and 1923 - is denied to
this day by
the Turkish government. This cover up of the 20th century's first genocide
caused
Hitler and many others to think that they too could get away with their
gross plans of
murder and holocaust.
Despite these denials, the facts of the Armenian Genocide and the exile
of the
Armenian nation from its historic homeland are clear. At the time, it was
internationally condemned and its perpetrators indicted as war criminals.
But
afterwards, in return for oil rights from lucrative Middle Eastern holdings
of Turkey,
these killers were released to rejoin the newly formed post-World War I
government of
Kemal Ataturk. The Treaty of Sevres, which had outlined territorial restorations
to
Armenia, was shelved. Since then, the government of Turkey has spent millions
of
dollars every year in a comprehensive disinformation campaign, lobbying
the U.S.
Congress, forging public relations campaigns, and rewriting history by
manipulating
U.S. universities and buying off "highly esteemed" U.S. professors.
Turkey's denial of the Armenian Genocide is made possible by its powerful
alliances
with the defense industry, multi-national oil companies, and the national
security
establishments in the U.S. and other Western nations. The truth has always
been
there for all to observe, yet the truth is rarely profitable in a world
of globalism and free
"slave" trade.
Our band, System Of A Down, comprised of four Armenians, has a duty to
our
people, as well as to the people of the world, to see justice done. We
have helped
educate many on the abuses of globalism, CIA activities, as well as the
Armenian
and other forgotten genocides. Profits from this show will be donated to
the Armenian
National Committee of America, a political organization that lobbies Congress
for
acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide.
We are looking for your help in this human rights issue because we believe
that
allowing any genocide to be denied will only encourage future genocides.
We ask you
to join us in taking on a system that covers-up the slaughter of a whole
nation for
financial and political profit. I know that you have been involved in bringing
light to
many other injustices around the globe, and hold our respect and admiration
accordingly. I am also aware that you therefore may have many other benefits
and
causes that you must attend to, therefore I thank you, in advance, for
your mere
consideration.
Serj Tankian