The discussion in Congress over defining what occurred in Turkey under the Ottoman Empire between 1915-1923 to the Armenian population in Asia Minor is very interesting. It speaks to the difficulty in defining genocide. It speaks to the difficulty in differentiating between “ethnic cleansing” and genocide. It speaks of the difficulty is determining what happened as a result of war, civil war, and domestic unrest. It also, sadly perhaps, speaks to the difficulty in separating nation self-interest on the part of other nations when deciding if another nation has committed genocide.
Let’s follow this debate.
David
