Diaspora ideologists and educators are generally unique.
They kindle an ideological spark, fanning a big flame from it, and often when they sense danger, they run back to a safe place.
Neither these confessors, nor these ideologues go under the bullets, they are usually in exile.
They are long term investors in eternity, in order to go down in history as a saints and heroes both on earth and in heaven.
They do not pay with their lives, they are often paid from different funds, but the people pay with their lives.
After all, no one asked the people at the beginning of the twentieth century, were there mechanisms, real chances for building their own state?
do the people want to secede? To fight a war?
Or maybe it was just a plan and project of special intelligence services for the fall of the empire?
And it was just necessary to enrage the people for an uprising?
I watch demonstrations of Armenians in such comfortable cities for living like San Francisco, Paris…
Of course, on weekdays and business can do with the Turks, and make deals, and do joint projects, and it’s no secret that the diaspora is quite successful.
But to call on to conquer Constantinople, or Baku at demonstrations, to quote formidable poetry.
They seem to believe that the French or the Americans should fight the Turks for them?
Those who live in the long-suffering Armenian lands may subconsciously understand that sooner or later they ll have to live in the neighborhood, and would like to consider the country’s economy in the future, , but how if around only deadly enemies?
And in the end it turns out that after the war, the devastation is much worse and there is another … tenth wave of emigration from there.
And the ideologists and enlighteners are still in the same emigration, provide themselves, prestige, a name and will go down in history as a new generation of the nation’s patriarchs.
I have not studied the topic of genocide, I bought a "British Documents of Ottoman Armenians " in Istanbul, in a second hand bookstore, I have not finished reading it yet.
But from what you read it is clear that the Kurdish tribes terrorized the Armenians, the Turks covered it all up, and it was not a solitary cases, it was the real persecution for years , on religious grounds, just before the mass massacre.
I attended the service last Sunday in the Armenian Church, also worrying about the long-suffering people, but I need the time to study these historical issues.
Indeed, Artsakh needs prayer support.