M. Ranjit Mathews writes:
> On Oct 17, 12:43 pm, Panta Rhei <cool.multi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I've checked this Azeri site calling itself "Genocide history" and I
see no
>> proof of any genocide there. There is one number mentioned of 7000
Azeris
>> killed in about 1918. If the number is correct at all (no killings of
>> Armenians by Azeris are mentioned by the way), it is still rather low
among
>> all the killings that went on in those regions at the time.
>
> Sure, but a deliberately engineered elimination of an ethnicity
> (Azerbaijanis down from nearly 25% to 5%) is classified as genocide
> even with zero killings. Genocide doesn't require killing; it just
> requires deliberate elimination of an ethnicity or religious group;
> the elimination can be by expulsion or forcible conversion and it's
> still genocide.
Sorry, as long as no independant scholars (but only Azeri websites, or
Azeri
and Turkish scholars) even discuss any possible such "genocide", there is
no
reason to suppose that there was anything like that. The source is
inasmuch
untrustworthy as there is no mention at all of Armenians getting killed at
that time by the Azeris.
Let's not forget that the unhappy fate of the Armenians in that region has
a
LOT to do with them being a relatively small nation of Christians
surrounded
by Muslim nations! It's a miracle that they survived at all, though they
almost DID get eradicated.
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