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Loukas Christodoulou | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 I see people are already coming out of the woodwork to say the Armenians are just 'voluntarily' leaving. This is exactly the narrative that was used to retrospectively justify genocidal expulsions of Palestinians, Cypriots and Bosnians, to name just a few recent examples.

If you shoot a gun in a crowded theater and people start to run for the exits you don't get to say all those killed in the crush were acting of their own volition. 

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Alex Afouxenidis | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @b870d4c8 good point, worth remembering
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Loukas Christodoulou | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 NB when I say Palestinians, Bosnians and Cypriots I am talking about all ethnic groups in those administrative territories who suffered genocidal attacks.