April 11, 2012
April 3, 2012
Czech Nazis Ready To March
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In past marches the Prague police have done little or nothing to stop the Czech Nazis from attacking Roma. DSSS party members (Workers Social Justice Party) have assaulted Roma men, women, and children. Their hatred knows no bounds.
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With the world watching, DSSS plans to march on Chanov in the Czech Republic. Their goal is to show up in overwhelming force to scare off Roma families. In this way they are trying to replicate methods use by hate groups world wide. The KKK used this method to attack African American families in the United States.
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A group in the Czech Republic has recently begun siding with the Roma cause. Hate Is No Solution, a human rights group, is planning to be at Chanov waiting for the DSSS march. They are the counter movement to the hatred rising in Czech society.
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"Every time the Nazis have marched into Romani-inhabited localities in the past, they have broken the law. They shout harsh anti-Romani slogans and members of the Romani minority are often physically assaulted once the march is over," says Miroslav Brož of Hate is No Solution. "The greatest psychological burden of the Nazi marches is borne by Romani children. We believe these marches by Nazis chanting hateful slogans beneath the windows of their apartments will scar them for life."
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And that is the side of fight Alder's Ledge falls in. The children of Chanov's Roma will be facing this wretched scene on April 7th. Their young eyes will be looking out their windows at a crowd of fellow Czechs who hate them.
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These Nazis don't hate the children of Chanov personally. It isn't anything the little kids have done. It isn't because the children are criminals. It's because the Roma children were born to gypsy families. It's because they aren't white.
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And that is why these sorts of marches should be shut down. The hatred that the National Resistance (Národní odpor) spews on it's website should be confined to it's online presence. Or at the very least, the march should be forced to be in a white neighborhood where Roma children wouldn't be present.
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In past marches the Prague police have done little or nothing to stop the Czech Nazis from attacking Roma. DSSS party members (Workers Social Justice Party) have assaulted Roma men, women, and children. Their hatred knows no bounds.
-
With the world watching, DSSS plans to march on Chanov in the Czech Republic. Their goal is to show up in overwhelming force to scare off Roma families. In this way they are trying to replicate methods use by hate groups world wide. The KKK used this method to attack African American families in the United States.
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A group in the Czech Republic has recently begun siding with the Roma cause. Hate Is No Solution, a human rights group, is planning to be at Chanov waiting for the DSSS march. They are the counter movement to the hatred rising in Czech society.
-
"Every time the Nazis have marched into Romani-inhabited localities in the past, they have broken the law. They shout harsh anti-Romani slogans and members of the Romani minority are often physically assaulted once the march is over," says Miroslav Brož of Hate is No Solution. "The greatest psychological burden of the Nazi marches is borne by Romani children. We believe these marches by Nazis chanting hateful slogans beneath the windows of their apartments will scar them for life."
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And that is the side of fight Alder's Ledge falls in. The children of Chanov's Roma will be facing this wretched scene on April 7th. Their young eyes will be looking out their windows at a crowd of fellow Czechs who hate them.
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These Nazis don't hate the children of Chanov personally. It isn't anything the little kids have done. It isn't because the children are criminals. It's because the Roma children were born to gypsy families. It's because they aren't white.
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And that is why these sorts of marches should be shut down. The hatred that the National Resistance (Národní odpor) spews on it's website should be confined to it's online presence. Or at the very least, the march should be forced to be in a white neighborhood where Roma children wouldn't be present.
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April 2, 2012
Islamaphobia and the Radical Right
I was once told that the only religion to have never committed jihad was Christianity. This supposed fact was news to me seeing as how my family tree had a little stay in Spain... abruptly ended by jihad.
The attacking force was not conscripted of Moors or Berbers. The assailants weren't angry burka wearing, Quran hugging, foaming at the mouth Muslims. Actually, the Moors were the only people willing to fight for my ancestors' freedoms. The advancing army was comprised of the first crusaders embarking upon the reconquest of Spain.
And it was in the Spanish Inquisition that these Latin rambling loons decided to expel my Jewish roots from southern Spain. Their goal was like that of Christian England who expelled it's Jews a couple centuries earlier. However Spain used the Muslim Moors as their excuse to get at the wealth of the Moors and Jews.
To me it seemed that England and Spain had committed jihad. The prevailing religion of the two were used to justify the slaughter of other religions. Yet I was told Christianity had never killed anybody due to religion.
In the United States we used the Holy Bible to justify the wholesale slaughter of "witches" in Salem. In the dirty south slaves were made to convert or die. And thus their native religions were destroyed so as to fit the demands of their masters. Yet neither compared to the convert or die philosophy used to implement genocide upon the Native Americans.
So how is it that the myth of Christian purity still exist in the far right today? And even in the moderate right wing, how is it that many still believe that Christianity is the only religion to have never committed jihad?
One can find even in main steam America a paranoia when it comes to Muslims. I myself have been asked if I was Muslim while wearing my kippa... as if it would be a bad thing to say yes.
Yet in the far right you get more of the radicalized fear of Islam. This is the sort of view that believes that every chador wearing Muslim is part of a "sleeper cell". The sort if paranoia that we would call Islamaphobia.
With people like Ron Paul it is transferred to the belief that Muslims are not as "sophisticated" as us. That they are somehow just a couple steps behind us when it comes to society and civilization.
Yet even this philosophy is neutering in a manner when it comes to the humanity of the Muslim. It never helps a society to belittle a portion of its population. Instead it cripples the society as a whole.
By treating a person as a child you create a child within that individual. If you treat them as an enemy you create an enemy within that individual. So where is the brotherly love preached in the Gospel when it comes to the radical right?
There is none. Just as Osama Bin Laden preached hatred and death from his interpretation of the Quran; the radical right preaches hatred and vile contempt for the love Yeshua preached in the Christian Bible.
Worse yet, the potential for pogroms and ultimately genocide arise as this sort of paranoia spreads.
And that is why Alder's Ledge continues to discuss this seemingly political topic. We find it contemptible that this form of hate filled vitriol remains a part of our national discourse.
For those in Indiana who listen to WIBC 93.1 you might be familiar with Greg Garrison and his usual show. Today I was treated to his usual pompous attitude when it comes to Islam vs Christianity.
Today however I found it odd how the term "snakes" was used to describe all Muslims in the United States. This was again news to me seeing as how many of my closest friends are Muslims. And till having listened to his show was I unaware they were "snakes".
This term falls in line with how the Hutu in Rwanda called all Tutsi "cockroaches". It is the same degenerate method the the Nazi's used (Hitler claimed to be a good Catholic) when calling all Jews "rats". Yet a supposed news commentator here in Indiana found it acceptable to use a dehumanizing term to describe all Muslims here in the United States.
And yet time and time again I'm told that the right wing doesn't hate anybody.
Note that I do understand the actual meaning of the word "jihad" and know that it does not mean "holy war". The use of the word is for illustrative purposes since the word is used in this manner by the people this article is meant to address. If you want to comment on that please note that you have read this portion of post and know that I will not reply kindly to any pious responses.
March 29, 2012
Socialism and Sterilization
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"Never shut-up, Never cease, Never Forget."
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And we are back... again.
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In past post I have pointed out how eugenics was used to castrate and sterilize the quote "undesirables" of society. In Indiana alone thousands of people were sterilized against their will. And yet it seems that many seem to forget that these were all acts committed by governments and government sponsored healthcare officials.
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In the United States we today are happy to forget the eugenics in our past. After all, 23 states practiced eugenics in their attempts to sterilize almost anyone they wanted control over. Many would even tiptoe into the realm of euthanasia as a result of eugenics.
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So why today are we comfortable with a government controlled healthcare?
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On May 17th of 1934 Germany banned all Jews from it's national socialist healthcare system. This form of healthcare was free to all other Germans. In fact it was illegal for any doctor to refuse treatment for a patient unless of course the patient was Jewish.
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By July of that same year it was issued by Germany that Jewish doctors could no longer legally practice medicine. In other words it was illegal for Jews to have access to any form of healthcare.
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For the "undesirables" left in the system sterilization was a very real threat. Roma and other gypsy groups were often sterilized without consent or knowledge about what was happening. This practice would continue in much of Europe till the 90s. And in Eastern Europe the practice still continues till this day.
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Under Hitler's Germany healthcare meant population control. It manipulated who could or would have children. Forced abortions became mandatory when the state had "reason" to fear the would be child.
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State run healthcare in 1934 Germany spent very little time in sterilization. Hitler's ultimate goal of euthanasia and mass slaughter had to be realized. And thus Germany ran toward the end results of socialist healthcare... the killing of the "undesirables".
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Recently Obama's White House tried to violate the United States Constitution and our freedom of religion by pushing "birth control" upon the Catholic Church. Muslims also opposed the issue but were ignored due to not being an identified "voting block" in the Democrat Party. Yet what was ignored even more than the Muslims was the fact that abortion was a form of the so called "birth control".
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And that is where socialist healthcare edges it's way into genocide. It's tendency to brush the borders of tyranny have remained constant throughout the years. Obama's healthcare cannot avoid the pitfalls of socialism (the greatest pitfall of all being genocide).
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Socialized medicine leaves all societies open to the possibilities of abuse. When a society allows a government branch take control of a life and death issue such as this one it leaves itself at the mercy of a future genocidal regimes. It is only a short walk down the road from the hospitals where Hitler euthanized mentally handicapped to Dachau where Jews were gassed.
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On June 26Th of 1935 Germany made it mandatory for women to have abortions if the doctor believes the child may be "defective".
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Obama's administration did not name for what reasons a child should be killed. And when called out upon it they took a step back. But the socialist side of his healthcare system has shown through.
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In Europe's healthcare systems there have been endless stories of Roma being sterilized against their will. Many Roma in recent years have also come forward with claims of forced abortions. All helping to prove the tendency of socialized healthcare... the trend to control who has children and from who the next generation comes.
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In the end we will have to wait to see just how the "Obamacare" system works out. The Roma in Europe have been, all be it against their will, our canaries in the coal mine. But let us remember, those who do not learn from history are damned to repeat it.
"Never shut-up, Never cease, Never Forget."
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And we are back... again.
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In past post I have pointed out how eugenics was used to castrate and sterilize the quote "undesirables" of society. In Indiana alone thousands of people were sterilized against their will. And yet it seems that many seem to forget that these were all acts committed by governments and government sponsored healthcare officials.
-
In the United States we today are happy to forget the eugenics in our past. After all, 23 states practiced eugenics in their attempts to sterilize almost anyone they wanted control over. Many would even tiptoe into the realm of euthanasia as a result of eugenics.
-
So why today are we comfortable with a government controlled healthcare?
-
On May 17th of 1934 Germany banned all Jews from it's national socialist healthcare system. This form of healthcare was free to all other Germans. In fact it was illegal for any doctor to refuse treatment for a patient unless of course the patient was Jewish.
-
By July of that same year it was issued by Germany that Jewish doctors could no longer legally practice medicine. In other words it was illegal for Jews to have access to any form of healthcare.
-
For the "undesirables" left in the system sterilization was a very real threat. Roma and other gypsy groups were often sterilized without consent or knowledge about what was happening. This practice would continue in much of Europe till the 90s. And in Eastern Europe the practice still continues till this day.
-
Under Hitler's Germany healthcare meant population control. It manipulated who could or would have children. Forced abortions became mandatory when the state had "reason" to fear the would be child.
-
State run healthcare in 1934 Germany spent very little time in sterilization. Hitler's ultimate goal of euthanasia and mass slaughter had to be realized. And thus Germany ran toward the end results of socialist healthcare... the killing of the "undesirables".
-
Recently Obama's White House tried to violate the United States Constitution and our freedom of religion by pushing "birth control" upon the Catholic Church. Muslims also opposed the issue but were ignored due to not being an identified "voting block" in the Democrat Party. Yet what was ignored even more than the Muslims was the fact that abortion was a form of the so called "birth control".
-
And that is where socialist healthcare edges it's way into genocide. It's tendency to brush the borders of tyranny have remained constant throughout the years. Obama's healthcare cannot avoid the pitfalls of socialism (the greatest pitfall of all being genocide).
-
Socialized medicine leaves all societies open to the possibilities of abuse. When a society allows a government branch take control of a life and death issue such as this one it leaves itself at the mercy of a future genocidal regimes. It is only a short walk down the road from the hospitals where Hitler euthanized mentally handicapped to Dachau where Jews were gassed.
-
On June 26Th of 1935 Germany made it mandatory for women to have abortions if the doctor believes the child may be "defective".
-
Obama's administration did not name for what reasons a child should be killed. And when called out upon it they took a step back. But the socialist side of his healthcare system has shown through.
-
In Europe's healthcare systems there have been endless stories of Roma being sterilized against their will. Many Roma in recent years have also come forward with claims of forced abortions. All helping to prove the tendency of socialized healthcare... the trend to control who has children and from who the next generation comes.
-
In the end we will have to wait to see just how the "Obamacare" system works out. The Roma in Europe have been, all be it against their will, our canaries in the coal mine. But let us remember, those who do not learn from history are damned to repeat it.
January 25, 2012
Ukraine Pogroms
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January 11Th...
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The sun had not yet come up when the "Berkut" began it's dirty business. Ukrainian shock troops beat down the doors of Romani homes. Like the jackboots that ravaged the Ukraine decades before, these crack troops used racial prejudice to justify their terror.
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Like rabid dogs the Ukrainian police attacked their prey. Beating men and women alike the savages shouted racist slurs and death threats. Romani children watched on in horror as the people who are supposed to protect them beat their parents nearly to death.
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The Ukrainian state claims nothing happened. Yet word and evidence of the attacks keeps slipping out of the Ukraine. Roma groups and Human Rights organizations keep reporting the facts that the racist government and police of the Ukraine try to hide.
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So far one Roma man has died. He had been suffering from tuberculosis. After being attacked he died. Others have been in and out of hospitals as a direct result of the beatings the police gave them.
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January 11Th...
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The sun had not yet come up when the "Berkut" began it's dirty business. Ukrainian shock troops beat down the doors of Romani homes. Like the jackboots that ravaged the Ukraine decades before, these crack troops used racial prejudice to justify their terror.
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Like rabid dogs the Ukrainian police attacked their prey. Beating men and women alike the savages shouted racist slurs and death threats. Romani children watched on in horror as the people who are supposed to protect them beat their parents nearly to death.
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The Ukrainian state claims nothing happened. Yet word and evidence of the attacks keeps slipping out of the Ukraine. Roma groups and Human Rights organizations keep reporting the facts that the racist government and police of the Ukraine try to hide.
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So far one Roma man has died. He had been suffering from tuberculosis. After being attacked he died. Others have been in and out of hospitals as a direct result of the beatings the police gave them.
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December 8, 2011
"Please Dont Kill Me"
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"I'll Never Be Tutsi Again!"
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Liars. The murders had machetes drawn and drenched in blood when they came to the church in Kibuye, Rwanda. Inside sat two families connected by two sisters. This day, these butchers, and their taunting lies would change the image of Rwanda for those who survived.
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Each sister was married to Tutsi men. Each sister was Hutu. By the roughly drawn "laws" of the murderous mobs the sisters' children were Tutsi. Thus the battle lines were drawn.
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The mob ordered any Hutu out of the church. Tutsi had to stay.
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The first sister decided that day that she would die a Tutsi... die with her husband. The mob was willing to kill her without a second thought.
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The second sister pleaded to be allowed to take her 11 children out of the church with her. After some time the mob said she could... under one condition.
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They ordered her to leave the building. Just outside the doorway she called her children to supposed safety. Wait their she had been promised the opportunity to leave.
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Her 11 children walked toward the exit. Afraid, the children walked toward the mob who stood between them and their mom. This is when all Hell broke loose.
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In a blood lust filled rage the mob began hacking away at the 11 children. In a matter of moments 7 of the children were mangled and laying dead in the church doorway. Two had escaped.
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A three year old boy now stood crying in the midst of his dead brothers and sisters. As the mob encircled the boy he screamed for mercy.
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"Please don't kill me," the young boy shouted. "I'll never be Tutsi again!"
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The child's mother could do nothing for her boy. The mob had become a snarling pack of hyenas. Their prey was barely old enough to run let alone fight back. The war against the Tutsi had now become absolute Hell.
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Unmoved by the three year old child's tears and blood curdling pleas... the Hutu mob attacked.
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Genocide doesn't allow it's perpetrators to see these scenes with rational eyes... it mask their hearts. This three year old boy was the enemy for the genocidal Hutu. He wad old enough to know he was Tutsi. And that was all that mattered to his savage assailants.
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For the two siblings who lived the image of their brother pleading for mercy would never cease to replay itself over and over again in their minds. For you, it should never cease to replay itself over and over again in your soul.
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Genocide has not gone away. It continues to claim lives in countries all around the world. Currently it continues to kill in countries right next-door to Rwanda.
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As long as we remain silent it will never stop... it will never relent. It knows no boundaries and respects no borders. National sovereignty does not concern those who practice genocide. Religion cannot reign it in. Morality is blurred by it's many forms.
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Only the actions of brave men and women can stop it. Only the will to fight for the rights of all people can stem it's bloody flow. Only the courage to scream, even when it seems nobody I'd listening, will bring an end to genocide.
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Scream for those who have no voice. Repost this and other post on Alder's Ledge. Share us on FaceBook and Twitter. Follow us on Twitter, @alders_ledge. All of these are easy ways to become a screamer.
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"I'll Never Be Tutsi Again!"
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Liars. The murders had machetes drawn and drenched in blood when they came to the church in Kibuye, Rwanda. Inside sat two families connected by two sisters. This day, these butchers, and their taunting lies would change the image of Rwanda for those who survived.
-
Each sister was married to Tutsi men. Each sister was Hutu. By the roughly drawn "laws" of the murderous mobs the sisters' children were Tutsi. Thus the battle lines were drawn.
-
The mob ordered any Hutu out of the church. Tutsi had to stay.
-
The first sister decided that day that she would die a Tutsi... die with her husband. The mob was willing to kill her without a second thought.
-
The second sister pleaded to be allowed to take her 11 children out of the church with her. After some time the mob said she could... under one condition.
-
They ordered her to leave the building. Just outside the doorway she called her children to supposed safety. Wait their she had been promised the opportunity to leave.
-
Her 11 children walked toward the exit. Afraid, the children walked toward the mob who stood between them and their mom. This is when all Hell broke loose.
-
In a blood lust filled rage the mob began hacking away at the 11 children. In a matter of moments 7 of the children were mangled and laying dead in the church doorway. Two had escaped.
-
A three year old boy now stood crying in the midst of his dead brothers and sisters. As the mob encircled the boy he screamed for mercy.
-
"Please don't kill me," the young boy shouted. "I'll never be Tutsi again!"
-
The child's mother could do nothing for her boy. The mob had become a snarling pack of hyenas. Their prey was barely old enough to run let alone fight back. The war against the Tutsi had now become absolute Hell.
-
Unmoved by the three year old child's tears and blood curdling pleas... the Hutu mob attacked.
-
Genocide doesn't allow it's perpetrators to see these scenes with rational eyes... it mask their hearts. This three year old boy was the enemy for the genocidal Hutu. He wad old enough to know he was Tutsi. And that was all that mattered to his savage assailants.
-
For the two siblings who lived the image of their brother pleading for mercy would never cease to replay itself over and over again in their minds. For you, it should never cease to replay itself over and over again in your soul.
-
Genocide has not gone away. It continues to claim lives in countries all around the world. Currently it continues to kill in countries right next-door to Rwanda.
-
As long as we remain silent it will never stop... it will never relent. It knows no boundaries and respects no borders. National sovereignty does not concern those who practice genocide. Religion cannot reign it in. Morality is blurred by it's many forms.
-
Only the actions of brave men and women can stop it. Only the will to fight for the rights of all people can stem it's bloody flow. Only the courage to scream, even when it seems nobody I'd listening, will bring an end to genocide.
-
Scream for those who have no voice. Repost this and other post on Alder's Ledge. Share us on FaceBook and Twitter. Follow us on Twitter, @alders_ledge. All of these are easy ways to become a screamer.
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December 7, 2011
Silent Suffering
Rape And Genocide
As the Armenian genocide began the horrors it would unleash became almost instantly clear to one part of the Armenian population... it's women.
Turkish soldiers were well known for many things amongst the Armenians. Self-control was not one of them. Instead the Turks took everything they wanted without a moment of hesitation. This included the innocence of young Armenian girls.
Rape became a hallmark of deportation in the process The Young Turks called "Turkification". If a child became unable to walk after repeated rapes... the Turks killed them. If a woman tried to resist she would be bludgeoned and then gang raped... then killed.
Yet despite the use of rape as a weapon not all it's victims died. Many were kept alive to serve as sex slaves in Turkish homes. Government officials, officers, and street vendors all approached the caravans of deportees to purchase "desirables". Young girls and boys were purchased from the soldiers all along the death marches.
Some of these slaves would be sent to work on farms. Others were sent to Turkish homes as servants. Many were sent to Turkish villages to be used as forced wives or made to participate in orgies.
For those made to become wives or concubines, rape was a daily threat. "Unrelated girls and boys in the household—regardless of religious or ethnic origin—were sexually available to senior males." Any adult male could use them for his deviant desires.
In all of this a common form of brandishing ownership developed amongst the Turkish masters. Slaves were to be tattooed upon their face and hands. It was a way to demoralize the slave and to show the rest of society that they were "unclean".
Thanks to the League Of Nations (the predecessor to the UN) we have documented cases of this practice. The survivors' families can access the pictures and documents of their grandparents who made it out of captivity. All due to a safe house the League operated in Aleppo, Syria. These images and surveys are housed in Geneva.
For Suzanne Khardalian these documents helped her understand the suffering and deep scars left by the "devilish marks" on her grandmother's hands and face. You can hear her story by watching her film "Grandma's Tattoos".
As the Armenian genocide began the horrors it would unleash became almost instantly clear to one part of the Armenian population... it's women.
Turkish soldiers were well known for many things amongst the Armenians. Self-control was not one of them. Instead the Turks took everything they wanted without a moment of hesitation. This included the innocence of young Armenian girls.
Rape became a hallmark of deportation in the process The Young Turks called "Turkification". If a child became unable to walk after repeated rapes... the Turks killed them. If a woman tried to resist she would be bludgeoned and then gang raped... then killed.
Yet despite the use of rape as a weapon not all it's victims died. Many were kept alive to serve as sex slaves in Turkish homes. Government officials, officers, and street vendors all approached the caravans of deportees to purchase "desirables". Young girls and boys were purchased from the soldiers all along the death marches.
Some of these slaves would be sent to work on farms. Others were sent to Turkish homes as servants. Many were sent to Turkish villages to be used as forced wives or made to participate in orgies.
For those made to become wives or concubines, rape was a daily threat. "Unrelated girls and boys in the household—regardless of religious or ethnic origin—were sexually available to senior males." Any adult male could use them for his deviant desires.
In all of this a common form of brandishing ownership developed amongst the Turkish masters. Slaves were to be tattooed upon their face and hands. It was a way to demoralize the slave and to show the rest of society that they were "unclean".
Thanks to the League Of Nations (the predecessor to the UN) we have documented cases of this practice. The survivors' families can access the pictures and documents of their grandparents who made it out of captivity. All due to a safe house the League operated in Aleppo, Syria. These images and surveys are housed in Geneva.
For Suzanne Khardalian these documents helped her understand the suffering and deep scars left by the "devilish marks" on her grandmother's hands and face. You can hear her story by watching her film "Grandma's Tattoos".
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