2) to go into a peace loving country and destroy it (see: http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/history/nixon.html0 )

3) to invade Iraq because of (lie) Weapons of Mass Destruction

Racial hatred and killing in Darfur is an indigenous problem. China is just buying oil from that part of Africa. In the last few years China was doing everything she could working with United Nations to stop the tragedy.

Why should some idiots believe China should invade Sudan like Bush did to Iraq and be hated by both Sunni and Shiite

There is also a common body of historical research and interpretation being developed:
http://www.armturkworkshop.org/home.html

This article in Inside Higher Ed gives a good review of the scholarship on the issue:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/16/genocide

Efforts continue on all fronts – political, academic, etc. so as to counter the type of revisionism pushed by the Turkish government and exemplified by the above post by “historian” “Steve Douglas Jr”.

FOLIOfn Teams with Genocide Intervention Network and Launches First Ever Genocide-Free Stock Screening Tool

http://blog.teamcrossworld.com/2008/03/investing-in-genocide.html

In any event, Jean Hatzfeld has already written a rather fascinating book about the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide called “Machete Season.” It’s a set of interviews with ten friends who took part in the killing.

Another attempt to legislate history…The events of 1915 has never been historically or legally substantiated.

It was with the creation of two revolutionary Armenian committees, the Hinchag Committee formed in Geneva, Switzerland in 1887, and the Dashnag Committee, established in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1890, that Armenian national aspirations began to assume the more classical form which the Ottomans had come to know and worry in the previous half-century.

From the outset, both the Hinchags and Dashnags adopted terror as a primary tactic in their struggle, the ultimate aim of which was the “liberation” of the Armenian “homeland” of eastern Anatolia from the Ottoman rule. They tried to alter the demographic structure of certain regions by massacring and harassing the Turks and other Muslims in these areas.

The Great Powers of those days began to regard the Armenians as an important instrument that could be manipulated against the Ottoman Empire. These powers promised the Armenians a purely ethnic Armenian state in Eastern Anatolia where paradoxically they constituted only a minority.

The start of World War I and the entry of the Ottoman State into the war against the Allied Powers were seen as a great opportunity by the extremist Armenians. They revolted against the Ottoman Government and collaborated with the invading Russian Armies and other foreign forces, launching attacks on the Ottoman army and Muslim civilians from behind the front and engaging in acts of sabotage.

In March 1915, the Russian forces began to move toward Van. Immediately, on April 11, 1915, the Armenians of Van initiated a general revolt, massacring all the Turks in the vicinity to enable the city’s quick and easy conquest by the Russians.

When there was no evident lessening of the Armenian attacks, the Ottoman Government finally acted. On April 24, 1915, the Armenian revolutionary committees were closed and 235 of their leaders were arrested for activities against the state. It is the date of these arrests that has been annually observed in recent years by Armenian nationalist groups throughout the world to commemorate the “massacre” which they claim took place at that time. No such massacre, however, occurred, at that or any other time during the war.

The Ottoman Government, facing enormous internal and external threats caused by the Armenians, in May 1915, resorted to a defensive measure, which any country in a similar situation would not hesitate to take. It adopted the Relocation Law to transfer Armenians who lived in areas affected by war to southern provinces of the Ottoman State.

The Ottoman Government instructed the local authorities to take the necessary security measures for the orderly relocation of the Armenians. The orders which were issued to this effect are available in the Ottoman archives. Despite these measures, war conditions, feelings of local hatred and revenge had prompted attacks towards the convoys during the transfer process. The Government tried to prevent them. Moreover, officials or civilians who disobeyed the instructions of the Government and committed offences against Armenian convoys were tried by the Military Courts (“Divan-i Harbi Örfi, 1915-1916).

Despite these measures, scarcity of food and other means in the days of war, severe weather conditions, and outbreak of epidemic diseases like typhus, affecting the population in general, had also led to the increase in loss of human lives.

There is no question that the heavy toll in human lives during that period was a dark chapter in the common history of the Turks and the Armenians. In fact, it was an era in which all the people of Anatolia shared the same fate. It should be noted that 3 million people, mostly civilian Muslims, died in Anatolia during World War I. Those who perished in the hands of Armenian bands reached 524, 000, between the years 1914 through 1922. This is the actual reality behind the false claims distorting historical facts by ill-devised mottoes, such as the “first genocide of the Twentieth Century”.

memorialising only Tutsi survivors silences the lived experiences of violence and conflict of many Rwandans which ultimately is an added layer of tension in a country that is healing from decades of exclusion and oppression, both Hutu and Tutsi.