Sweden's parliament narrowly approved a resolution today recognizing the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Turkey as genocide.
Turkey denies that the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated and those killed were victims of civil war and unrest. Turkish Ambassador to Sweden has received instructions to go back to Turkey immediately after the vote.
Me, I find myself kind of in the middle here. Was it genocide? Probably, as it always is when government is involved, but I also think the Turkish stand has some merit. It has been exaggerated a bit for political reasons and during wars shit... sort of... happens.
And if we regard something that happened a hundred years ago that may have or may not have been genocide, as genocide, what is then what the Americans are doing in Afghanistan and Iraq now? Or how about Swedish troops ransacking Europe during the 30-year war of the 17th century?
Or how about the scam of manmade global warming? We know that hundreds of thousands have died because of the regulations, taxes and laws imposed because of that hoax, so isn’t that genocide?
Or what about the war on drugs? Tens of thousands dies of that each year curtsey of government.
Isn’t a government automatically committing genocide just for being government?
Maybe the Armenians should be vindicated and the Turkish onslaught be called genocide, but is it a political decision to be VOTED ON in the Swedish parliament?
I cannot help wondering that this is a political decision, not something to help or support any group of people. Maybe they don’t want Turkey to become member of EU? Maybe they want to destabilize Turkish society? Why now? Why so many countries doing it at the same time? What’s the point?
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