The Armenian genocide acknowledged by Swedish Social Democracy

Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?

These were the words of Adolf Hitler as he motivated his plans for a genocide on a far larger scale, that on the Jews:

Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formations in readiness — for the present only in the East — with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space (Lebensraum) which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?

(Kevork B. Bardakjian, Hitler and the Armenian Genocide. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Zoryan Institute, 1985.

Today’s big news in Sweden is that the congress of the Social Democrats in Sweden has decided to work for an EU acknowledgement of the Armenian genocide 1915–1923. The decision was taken by the congress against the governing board, and this is a victory for truth and righteousness.

The ‘big politicians’ do not like a decision like this, since it disturbs the dreams of an integration of Turkey into the EU. But the people ran down the top guys. This shows a backbone of righteousness in a movement with which I seldom sympathise. But its former leader Göran Persson made a similar positive historical statement, as he invited to the big Holocaust Congress in Stockholm.

The genocide, started in April 1915, was a systematic attempt to diminish the Armenian population. At least one million, up to one million and a half, people were killed, and hundreds of thousands became homeless, impoverished, and persecuted. Other Christian groups were also greatly diminished by the genocide: Assyrians, Syrians, and Caldeans. In fact, Armenia is the oldest Christian nation with a rich, old Christian literary culture.

It is upon time that EU politicians have the courage to state that this was not only a few single massacres (as if such could be trifled), but that it was a full-scale genocide. And genocides cannot be compared, other than in magnitude. He who rescues a child, rescued a whole world (Jewish saying). And he who kills a child, kills a whole world.

Today’s decision does Swedish grassroot Social democracy great credit.

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