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Documenting the Pontic Greek genocide New York Times record

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Part1: The New York Times record 1911-1922.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke.
Melville Chater in 1925 in his article "History's greatest trek" coined the phrase "holo-caust", to describe the Pontic Greek, Armenian and Assyrian Christian genocides in Asia Minor and is also quoted in the book by Colin Tatz "With intent to destroy" p18. Holocaust is a Greek word which literally means "total annihilation". A very accurate description of what happened to the Pontic Greeks, Armenian and Assyrian Christians between 1914 and 1924 in Asia Minor. So we are fully justified in using it as a tag in the video.
The only argument today is how many million Christians died? The accepted estimates by scholars today are more than two million Christians were exterminated. Out of them, at least 353,000 Pontic Greeks were annihilated.
The term "geno-cide" is also Greek and literally means "killing of a people, Nation, kin" again a very appropriate description of what was attempted in Asia Minor against the Pontic Greeks, the Armenian and the Assyrian Christians. The Turkish word is "soy-kirim" with the same meaning soy=kin and kirim=slaughter. The Hebrew root of the word comes from the Greek also.
Taner Akcam in his 2006 book "A Shameful Act" defines genocide as: "the partial or complete destruction of an ethnic, national, racial or religious group, whether in periods of peace or war" p.9. Again our tag is justified. Excerpts from Akcam's book can be found here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=-RHlOg1v8LIC &pg=PA194&lpg=PA194&dq=dr+nazim+bey&source=web&ots=LFcorDsvKm&sig=ASLbKR95zI6WCX309VSB6uPiF7o#PPP3,M1
As for the term Pontus or Pontos is from the Greek short for "Euxeinos" meaning friendly and "Pontus" or "Pontos" that means sea. Trapezous was founded by Ionian Greeks in 756 BC. The Pontic Greeks lived in the area of Pontus or Pontos for over 2700 years. Again out tag is justified.
Excerpts from death march survivor Thea Halo's book, "Not Even My Name", is here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=F-oFog9IdEwC &dq=thea+halo+not+even+my+name&pg=PP1&ots=zQfwxCK2wG&sig=QvEyoQXeCP2U7eh5GBIvZO0iFn0&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fq%3Dthea%2Bhalo%2Bnot%2Beven%2Bmy%2Bname%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26aq%3Dt%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26client%3Dfirefox-a&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPP1,M1
An interview with Thea Halo, by Khatchig Mouradian is, halfway down the page, here:
http://www.aztagdaily.com/interviews/Interviews.htm
The executioners, never read the document, the great Virginian wrote, America's finest hour: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness". Thomas Jefferson, Declaration Of Independence, 4th of July 1776.
John Kenneth Galbraith, said: "Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups."
A chilling account of Turkish atrocities by George Horton US Consul general of the Near East can be found here:
http://www.aina.org/books/tboa/tboa.htm
As US House of Representatives Allyson Y. Schwartz D, PA said: "The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century."

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