schubear

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schubear9 karma

Hi William,

I'm half-Armenian and my family came over (in part) during the Genocide. Our collective stories of escape and the horrors of the event are something that need to be chronicled. Is there any place to share our family histories? Of course I know of individual tales such as Armenian Golgoth and Between the Two Rivers (among others), but there are many, many more stories that need to be shared. Any thoughts/plans to collect these stories before our grandparents pass on?

Also, any suggestions for material to learn Armenian? I've always wanted to learn it but have had a difficult time doing so.

schubear2 karma

Go to law school! It's what all the cool kids are doing.

schubear2 karma

Stalin really did a number with the whole Nakhchivan and Nagorno-Karabagh thing, didn't he?

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Ethnic cleansing actually doesn't require killing. You could forcibly deport persons and then wipe out the culture and influence in the area (hence cleansing). Genocide is the killing of an entire group of people and generally includes wiping out their culture.

So all genocide is ethnic cleansing, but not all ethnic cleansing is genocide.