Good morning world. Just a reminder that Azerbaijan literally opened a dead Armenians theme park last month.
Parents brought their primary school-age kids to play with models of dying Armenian soldiers, helmets from actual dead Armenian soldiers, and even practice strangling an Armenian themselves.
The Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime (1975 to 1979.)
Analysis of 20,000 mass grave sites by the DC-Cam Mapping Program and Yale University indicate at least 1,386,734 victims of execution. Estimates of the total number of deaths resulting from Khmer Rouge policies, including disease and starvation, range from 1.7 to 2.5 million out of a 1975 population of roughly 8 million.
Choeung Ek Genocidal Center, Phnom Penh Cambodia The Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime (1975 to 1979.)
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum in Phnom Penh. The site is a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge. From 1975 to 1979, an estimated 17,000 – 20,000 people were imprisoned at Tuol Sleng.
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh, Cambodia The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum in Phnom Penh. The site is a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge.
today is the anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre (Dec 29, 1890). The United States in cold blood murdered Lakota men, women, and children. Slaughtered them and have the nerve to call it a “battle” as if there was any fighting done in return.
Today native people still struggle against the effects of cultural and physical genocide. Our voices are often smothered by others but we are still strong. And we never forget.
I guess transphobes are running out of “arguments” because they’re starting to just say what they’ve actually been wanting to say this entire time- they don’t want you to exist. At best they want you to look the sex you were born as and pretend that you’re not trans. At worst they want it to be clear (beard and muscles while wearing a dress) so they know who to kill.
There are people like Helen Joyce using language that Nazi Germany used to talk about disabled people. “They need special help. (And that’s a burden.)”
There’s a “genocide pyramid” based on the patterns of actions usually taken before a genocide happens, and we’re just one step below the top.
It’s been time to treat transphobes as genocidal for awhile now. Nothing you say will sway them, so you have to push against them. (Be careful while doing it though.)
Alternatively if you can, I’d suggest moving to a progressive city where there’s a decent chance that you’ll have more allies than enemies. I feel really fucking lucky every day that all four of my grandparents just so happened to have wanted to move to the city I live in, and those who wave MAGA flags look extremely out of place among the BLM and Pride flags.
Edit: I forgot to mention- in that “documentary” that Matt Walsh made, he used a picture of a topless 15 year old trans boy. But by his logic he’s actually a girl. So to him and his audience he used a picture of a topless 15 year old girl.
Edit 2: I know this was strongly implied, but the trans boy had breast reduction surgery. I just wanted to clarify that before anybody asks why his boobs were out in public.
Beijing’s free-speech threat at Winter Olympics is the millionth reason to boycott
Beijing last week provided another reason to skip the 2022 Winter Olympics Games: a warning to competing athletes to not speak about about China’s aggression, oppression or genocidal abuses.
“Any expression that is in line with the Olympic spirit I’m sure will be protected,” Yang Shu, the Beijing Organizing Committee’s deputy director general of international relations, generously allows. But: “Any behavior or speech that is against the Olympic spirit, especially against the Chinese laws and regulations, are also subject to certain punishment.”
Nice to know the Chinese Communist Party’s view of “Olympic spirit,” already apparent in its treatment of its own athletes.
Yang added that “the politicization of sports is one of the things opposed by the Olympic Charter” and that “dedicated departments” would be established if any protests violated Chinese laws or the Olympic regulations.
What kinds of dedicated departments? We’ll find out when China makes something up on the spot.
And don’t expect the International Olympic Committee to stand by the athletes or free speech; it’s been too busy defending its choice of Beijing to host the games, despite its repeated atrocities.
These Olympics threaten to add a whole new competition — with the CCP racking up gold medals for fresh oppression.
Maori woman carrying an infant on her back, 1892 -
(photo from natlib.govt.nz)
The New Zealand Holocaust
‘Many descendants of British colonist’s are under some impression that settlement was a lovely peaceful event where British colonist never attempted to exterminate Maori,Confiscate 99% of their land and assimilate them.
A holocaust is defined as “Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale” it is not isolated to any single event. The Maori was in terminal decline only 50 years after signing the Treaty of Waitangi -75% of the Maori were deceased (Mason Durie, Ngā Tai Matatū, pp 29-31).
The British Army had Machine guns that could mow down an entire Battalion and the latest Armstrong Artillery. Maori fighting back with muskets could not prevent slaughter of men woman and children against a professional army.
Maori were punished severely for attempting to protect their ancestral lands against the wishes of the British government their land was to be repatriated.
Without land and the native courts designed to strip more land from Iwi the Maori soon fell into poverty and despair attempting to assimilate into British society. The government refused to offer Iwi medical care to prevent Small pox,influenza many diseases that Maori had not been exposed to.
By 1890 the Maori was on the verge of being exterminated.
Many British colonists liked to gloat about the demise of the Maori people by saying “They have been replaced by a superior race”.’
Almost 200 people were murdered in Armenia in 3 days and y'all are still ignoring us.
This is not a war, this is a massacre Azerbaijan and Turkey are committing against the Armenian people.
Turkey’s president literally admitted that he wants to finish what his ancestors started. He wants to commit another genocide, and this time he wants to kill us all.
Silence is violence
Update: it’s been over a month. 2 thousand people were murdered so far. Please, I’m so scared, just reblog this. I’m not asking for a lot, if you can’t donate that’s fine, just share this.
I’m sure everyone is sick of seeing political posts, this isn’t political, it’s a humanitarian crisis! And it’s not only happening “somewhere else” anymore!
Armenians are being attacked in the streets of my country!!Why is there not national outrage, or a movement rising up?? Where is anyone outside of the Armenian population screaming for equality? A genocide is literally taking place RIGHT NOW but you all would rather get upset and put your energy into candidates who are literally doing nothing of substance to help this situation while schools, hospitals and civilian homes are destroyed.
In 1915 no one cared about Armenia either, they watched as these same instigators marched women, children and elderly out into the desert with the sole intention of none of them making it back home, this is after murdering the men and those strong enough to fight back in front of their families. The term genocide was coined solely because of this tragedy! An entire culture almost wiped from the planet, and people still say we are overreacting!
Don’t allow this to happen again, don’t be someone who sits back as an entire country and culture are facing the threat of a SECOND GENOCIDE!!!! Please, wake up, do something, spread the news, because it could be me or my family being targeted tomorrow.
the term genocide was coined after the mass ethnic cleansing of armenians by the ottoman empire in 1915. think about that for a second.
i say this as the descendant of two holocaust survivors: it is vital to remember now that hitler rationalized the holocaust because no one cared about the armenian genocide, either. for once in history, pay collective attention before a mass tragedy occurs. (again. and again and again.)
The bridge over the Akhurian river, flowing from Arpi lake dates either from the tenth century or thirteenth century. It is a good example of medieval Armenian architecture and engineering. The bridge’s single arch which spanned over thirty metres has fallen due to neglect and war during the Ottoman empire. Only the tall bridge endings have remained which were possibly part of a fortified gate. Nineteenth century traveller reported a gaurdhouse next to the bridge, but this aswell has now vanished. This medieval bridge in the ruined medieval Armenian capital Ani. Ani stood on various trade routes and its many religious buildings, palaces, and fortifications were amongst the most technically and artistically advanced structures in the world.
Next to the bridge is the Monastery of the Virgins. A small monastery from the eleventh century that stands on a rocky hill, isolated from the rest of the city and overlooking the Akhurian bridge. It was named after the virgin martyrs of Saint Hripsime, and may have contained a community of nuns.
Bordering the enclosure of the wall is a long and spacious stairway with a vaulted roof, partly cut into the natural rock. It leads down to the Akhurian river. It most likely contained a roadway leading to the bridge. In the valley below the Monastery of the Virgins are various structures. These include a tiny, single naved chapel and a rectangular structure. This may have been a watchtower to control movement along the river bank. Like most ancient and medieval Armenian sites within current Turkish borders, the bridge is off limits to any visitors, therefore much information and research is missing. Several medieval bridges once existed over the Akhurian River.
The photos of Armin T. Wegner capture the bleak struggle to survive facing Armeniandeportees. As a second-lieutenant in the German army stationed in the Ottoman empire in April 1915, Wegner took the initiative to investigate reports of Armenian massacres. Disobeying orders intended to stifle news of the massacres, he collected information on the genocide and took hundreds of photographs of Armenian deportation camps, primarily in the Syrian desert.
Wegner was eventually arrested, but not before he had succeeded in channeling a portion of his research material to Germany and the United States through clandestine mail routes. When he was transferred to Constantinople in November 1916, he secretly took with him photographic plates of images he and other German officers recorded.
Photographs in order of appearance by Armin T. Wegner.
1. 1915, Armenian deportees living in the open desert under makeshift tents. Central figure with long black robe and cap is an Armenian priest, probably performing burial rites for the dead a three men behind are kneeling while others are standing next to and behind the priest. Clothing of some deportees is already worn to rags. Location: Ottoman empire.
2. 1915-1916 Abandoned and murdered small children of the (Armenian) deportees, Three are dead including stripped boy in gutter. Location: Ottoman empire.
3. 1915-1916, murdered Armenian male adult lying in a ditch as children watch the corpse. Location: Ottoman empire.
4. 1916, Scattered deportees in a desert wasteland, individually foraging as their only source of food. There is no shelter, water, or habitation in sight. Location: Ottoman empire
Հայոց ցեղասպանության զոհերի հուշահամալիր Armenian Genocide memorial complex
Armenia’s official memorial dedicated to the victims of the Armenian Genocide. Built in 1967 on one of three hills of Tsitsernakaberd. Litterarly meaning “swallow’s fortress”
Every year on April 24 thousands of Armenians and visitors from around the world gather at the memorial to remember the 1,5 million Armenians who perished during the Genocide. Fresh flowers are laid around the burning flame in the middle of the complex out of respect. Over the years many world leading politicians, religious figures, artists, musicians and athletes have visisted the memorial.
The construction of the monument began in 1966, during Soviet times, in response to the 1965 Yerevan demonstrations during which one hundred thousand people demonstrated in Yerevan for 24 hours to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Genocide. A highly confidential letter was sent to the Presidium of the Communist Party of Armenia by three armenian politicians and scientists, where they made a series of proposal to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the genocide. Point 8 said:
“To build the memorial of the victims of the Armenian people in World War I on account of the income of the population. The memorial must symbolize the rebirth of the Armenian people.”
The 44 meter stele symbolizes the national rebirth of Armenians. Twelve slabs are positioned in a circle, representing the twelve lost provinces in present day Turkey. In the center of the stone slabs at a depth of 1,5 meters there is an eternal flame dedicated to the 1.5 million people killed during the Armenian Genocide.
Along the park at the memorial there is a 100-meter wall with the names of towns and villages where massacres and deportations are known to have taken place. On the rear side of the commemoration wall, plates have been attached to honor persons who committed themselves to relieving the distress of the survivors during and after the genocide (among others: Johannes Lepsius, Franz Werfel, Armin T. Wegner, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Fridtjof Nansen, Pope Benedict XV, Jakob Künzler, Bodil Biørn).An alley of trees has been planted to commemorate the genocide victims.
To this day day no turkish state official has visited Tsitsernakaberd and it continues it’s Genocide denial and culture.
TheArmenian Genocide Museum-Institute (Հայոց ցեղասպանության թանգարան-ինստիտուտ) was opened in 1995 next to the memorial.
