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The genocide vote: Now is not the time
As one whose own family was decimated by the Holocaust, I respond very personally to charges that I would deny the existence of savage acts of inhumanity against a group of people because of ethnic, religious or racial differences -- be they Jews,...Tags: Massacres, Tom Lantos, Crime, Law and Justice, Hate Crimes, Crimes
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Turkey misses its chance with Armenia
VARTAN OSKANIAN is minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Armenia.ANKARA HAS LET a rare moment pass. Three weeks after the assassination of acclaimed Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, it appears the Turkish authorities have grasped neither the message of Hrant's life nor the significance of his death. In the...Tags: Massacres, Ankara (Turkey), Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress, Hate Crimes
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Armenia haunts the Turks again
HUGH POPE is the author of "Sons of the Conquerors: the Rise of the Turkic World." He lives in Istanbul.IS THERE A CURSE hanging over Turkey? Each time the country achieves sustained development, something trips it up. This time it was the assassination on Friday of Hrant Dink, a newspaper editor, peacemaker and one of Turkey's most prominent Armenians....Tags: Massacres, European Union, International Court or Tribunal, Crime, Law and Justice, World War I (1914-1918)
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Our fraying alliance with Turkey
Turkish-American relations are in crisis. But the House resolution declaring the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide is only one cause -- and that's just a sideshow. Turkish-American relations have been deteriorating for years, and the root...Tags: Massacres, Central Intelligence Agency, Hate Crimes, Syria, Israel
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New hope for genocide resolution
LAST WEEK, Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank) engaged in what has become a biannual congressional ritual: Introducing a nonbinding resolution instructing the president of the United States to call Turkey's Ottoman-era slaughter of Armenians a genocide....Tags: Massacres, George W. Bush, Adam B. Schiff, Crime, Law and Justice, Ankara (Turkey)
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Letters to the editor
Opinion divided on genocide bill Re "Genocide bill spurs Turkish envoy's recall," Oct. 12 The Turkish ambassador to the U.S. has been withdrawn, and there is an indication that Turkey is angry with the U.S. -- all because the U.S. may declare that the...Tags: Massacres, Annapolis, Iraq War (2003-2011), National Security, Williams-Sonoma Inc.
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The numbers prove it -- Iraq's a civil war
BARRY LANDO, a former producer for CBS' "60 Minutes," is the author of the forthcoming book "Web of Deceit" about the role of the West in Iraq.SO IS IT A CIVIL WAR in Iraq or isn't it? By the straightforward definition — a war fought between factions or regions within a single nation — the answer seems clearly to be yes. That's why NBC and the Los Angeles Times recently decided to...Tags: United Nations, Massacres, Television, Crime, Law and Justice, Hate Crimes
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How to stop genocide in Iraq
SAMANTHA POWER, a professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning " 'A Problem From Hell': America and the Age of Genocide."THOSE WHO SUPPORT remaining in Iraq increasingly can be heard invoking the specter of genocide as grounds for staying. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warned that, if U.S. troops leave, "You'll see a bloodletting in Baghdad that makes Srebrenica look like a...Tags: George W. Bush, Massacres, Iraq War (2003-2011), Pulitzer Prize Awards, International Court or Tribunal
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Iraq looms large in Tony Blair's legacy
TIMOTHY GARTON ASH, a contributing editor to Opinion, is professor of European studies at Oxford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.ALL POLITICAL careers end in failure, but it is not always the same failure. As British Prime Minister Tony Blair departs, he is deeply unpopular at home but rather respected abroad. Only 22% of British respondents in a recent poll think he can be...Tags: Massacres, Islam, Gordon Brown, Colleges and Universities, Hate Crimes
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A Turkish 'I apologize' campaign to Armenians
Two hundred Turkish intellectuals last month launched an Internet signature campaign for an apology to Armenians for the 1915 massacres. "My conscience does not accept the insensitivity showed to and the denial of the Great Catastrophe that the...Tags: Massacres, Crime, Law and Justice, Hate Crimes, Disasters, Disasters and Accidents
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PASSINGS
Arnold Meri Genocide trial subject Arnold Meri, 89, a decorated Red Army veteran charged with genocide for deporting hundreds of his Estonian countrymen to Siberia in 1949, died Friday at his home in Tallinn, Estonia. In 2007, Estonian prosecutors...Tags: Tallinn (Estonia), Massacres, International Court or Tribunal, Native Americans, Lawyers
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China, helicopters and genocide
Leaders of The Save Darfur Coalition met with The Times' editorial board last month to discuss the situation on the ground in Sudan and what the world should (but isn't) doing about it. Here's a partial transcript of remarks by Amir Osman, the group's...Tags: Massacres, Activism, Central Intelligence Agency, International Court or Tribunal, Saddam Hussein
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