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sumeyye
This is what a real genocide looks like...
The Indians
An estimated 120 million native Indians were killed in Canada, America and South America.
Small pox was used by the Spanish and British to wipe out millions of Indians to great effect.
In the East Coast of America, 12 million buffalo (the staple food of the Indians) were killed between 1870-1880 alone, in order to speed up the demise of these peoples.
Hundreds of boatloads of condemned European convicts were sent with Smallpox victims throughout the 17th,18th and 19th centuries.
General Custer was promoted for bravery in burning an Indian village of 90,000 dead Indians.
Smallpox and the Plague, according to some archaeologists, was the reason for the rapid demise of the Mian kingdoms in South America.
...and what did the turks do?:offended:
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What did the turks do? They killed millions of Armenians , that's what they did.
Genocide means the mass killing of a group of people.
Over a million Armenians were killed, can you deny this being a genocide?
This to me is a crime, we may differ whether there was a systematic, organized plan to eliminate the Armenians or not.
Also, the history of America does not determine whether the million of deaths is a genocide, you can't compare the two crimes to define the word genocide.
It may have been a greater crime against humanity, it surely does not make the criminals behind the killing of armenians innocent or less guilty because they killed less people. AstagfurliAllah, may Allah subhana wa ta'la protect us from such judgement, it is He ta'la to whom judgement belongs and surely He is Ahkam al Hakimeen.
It was a systematic killing of innocents which is by defenition of the word; a genocide.
Khair Insha'Allah
Allahu A'lam.