Quote (Caedus @ Dec 6 2014 10:08pm)
Uyghurs have a lot of claims thinking they own Xinjiang but historical evidence for the most part proves them wrong..
true, it proves them wrong. the Dzungar khanate and the Dzungars ruled in the area until 1757, after which they were systematically exterminated by in what'd be called a genocide in modern days.
Quote (Mutantlord @ Dec 10 2014 04:15pm)
irony of what ? if you are going to defend the minorities and their betrayal in the ottoman empire
are you talking of the Turkish failure in Russian Armenia at Sarikamish that was blamed on Armenians? not betrayal. the Czar did praise the Armenians after that though.
or are you talking about how the Russians took over Van? they'd have taken it over even if the Ottomans hadn't tried to exterminate them.
or are you talking about general paranoia during those times? doesn't matter.
or are you talking about an alternative line of history? you can keep that in your imagination.
Quote (Mutantlord @ Dec 10 2014 04:15pm)
(call it genocide with completely ignoring the deaths of turkish civilians)
do you even know what a genocide is? if some armed Armenian militias did slay Turks in some amounts after the Ottomans had failed to attack the Armenian community in Van, it doesn't mean that they (the Armenians) didn't get genocided in general.
have you ever looked at the numbers?
Quote (Mutantlord @ Dec 10 2014 04:15pm)
first you must think why we just didnt kill them all at the height of our power ?
pan-Ottomanism hadn't failed, the Young Turks didn't rule, the Empire wasn't as totally impotent as it was by then, the Empire wasn't falling apart and so on and so on. the Armenians in specific had been targeted before though, in the 1894 Hamidian massacres.
and most importantly because the Armenians weren't seen as a threat before the war broke out and Russia / the Ottomans were on the opposite sides of it.
what a stupid question
i'm sure i've forgotten something but if you've got half a working brain and a knack for puzzles i'm sure you can make something out of it, figure out the picture and so on.
and then we'll wonder why the Assyrians were massacred (i won't even mention the massacring of the Greeks because i'm absolutely sure that your opinions regarding them would make Hitler's opinions about Jews look relatively docile).
This post was edited by Gastly on Dec 10 2014 09:55am