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1. As an Armenian, I listen closely and hear the drumbeat of pre-genocidal suppression and oppression coming to the Kurds.  Despite the fact that Kurds participated in the massacres against Armenians during the Genocide, I still feel solidarity with them as people oppressed by Turkish domination and paranoia.  I support them in their struggle for equality and self-determination.  I hope that one day we can live as neighbors with, mutual respect, on our traditional homelands. I can’t believe that it is our destiny to be forgotten by the world and relegated to unending injustice.  Armenians and Kurds have the burden of bringing awareness of Turkey’s inhumanity toward non-ethnic Turkish citizens to the nations and calling for justice and basic human rights.  I wish it wasn’t so, but we must pick up our cross and carry on in faith.

2. Ismail Besikci is a wonderful and most humble person you could ever meet.
   I had the priveledge and pleasure of meeting him in Ankara at a mutual friend’s home last April.
   He has sent 17 years in prison for defending Kurdish rights when citizens were not even allowed to refer to Kurds using the “K” word.
   He was nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Price in 1987 for his humanitarian work.
   I wish the best for Ismail for he is a person who defends the human rights of all people, Armenians included.

3. .I recall in the 1970’s listening to a radio discussion’ where an unknown and unsung electronic geek was predicting the demise and end of communism. His reasoning was that the newly emerging electronics of that time,  would spell the end of radio jamming by the Soviets, and that freely available information, would result in a mass change of heart and thus the end of Communism. He was right.
   Now I predict that technology will advance to a point where, it will nullify every military technological advance. I can see a future where billion dollar planes are rendered inoperative by a hand held device. Cheap technology will be the great eqalizer.
   There is hope for us still.

4. Although I agree with Boyajian on some of the Kurds participating in the Armenian Genocides.  Kurds are nomadic and it may have been some of their gypsy bandits that participated.  However, today 60,000 Kurds live in Armenia where they enjoy their own freedoms, they have their own publication. 
   Every year on the aniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the Kurdish population of Armenia most graciously brings a reef and apologizes for the Kurds who particpated in these terrible atrocities.
   Ironically, it is the Kurds that dominate and live in our old villages and homes.  Even taking some of our old churches and making them into Goat Stalls.  I believe the Turks that told Kurds to carry out the murders promised them whatever they killed, robbed or raped was theirs, keep the Armenian’s homes, wives, clothes, children, etc., 
   Why is it that people sometimes find themselves staring down the barrel of the gun that they have helped to enable?

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