Dear Mrs. Christian Amanpour

The documentary entitled "Scream Bloody Murder" anchored by Christian Amanpour on CNN was courageous in some respect, troubling in other respect and disappointing generally; it did not penetrate the core of the subject, it lacked the serious analysis of the events and above all it almost ignored the most important Genocide of them all, the Armenian Genocide, perpetrated in Turkey, beginning from 1915, by the Turkish government with the direct participation of a large section of the Turkish and Kurdish populations.

A- Amanpour's attempt was courageous but stopped far short from the truth; because, since 1923 Turkey officially started to deny the Genocide (the allied occupying forces in Turkey having left the country) and begun to use all its available material and moral resources to pressure, bribe and lobby all countries and individuals who tried to remind the world of the Armenian Genocide. This on-going lobbying activity, which continues to the present day, became much more aggressive and efficient when after the Jewish Genocide and the creation of Israel, the Israeli powerful lobby, not a secret to anyone, joined-in forces. Under those pressures, Amanpour could not have given to the Armenian Genocide the prominent place it deserves, instead she gave the least important place by mentioning it for about 45 seconds in a 90-minute press screener and did not dwell into it in the same depth and compelling way as for the other Genocides and reported with deliberate inaccuracies; she did an injustice to the victims and denigrated their memories; thus, by giving in to those pressures, Amanpour lost her reputation of the objective investigative journalist; her cover up of the truth was brought to light and she is no longer the journalist of the truth that she pretends to be. However, she can redeem herself if very soon she apologizes to the Armenian nation and to all those who know the truth and she prepares a special documentary on the Armenian genocide based on materials from non denialist sources.

B- Amanpour's documentary was troubling because she belittled the Armenian genocide; the following points demonstrate why this genocide is the most important:

1) The Turkish assault in 1915, under cover of world war I, was so organized, swift and brutal that it obliterated in six-month time the Armenian nation and culture from its ancestral homeland of three thousands year (long before the Turks came from central Asia and occupied Armenia in 1453). For the first time in the history of mankind a devastating crime against humanity of such magnitude was being committed, the eye witness of the day, the US Ambassador in Turkey, Henry Morgenthau noted in a compelling way in his book "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story" as follows: "My only reason for relating such dreadful things as this is that, without the details, the English-speaking public cannot understand precisely what this nation is which we call Turkey. I have by no means told the most terrible details, for a complete narration of the sadistic orgies of which these Armenian men and women were the victims can never be printed in an American publication. Whatever crimes the most pervert instincts of the human mind can devise, and whatever refinements of persecution and injustice the most debased imagination can conceive, became the daily misfortunes of this devoted people. I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared with the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915. .... Yet all these previous persecutions seem almost trivial when we compare them with the sufferings of the Armenians,"... With the above vivid characterization of the crime it is not a surprise that the Armenians called the atrocities "Apocalypse", Yeghern in Armenian

2)"The Murder of a Nation", for the first time in human history these words were used by the US Ambassador in Turkey, Henry Morgenthau, as the title for chapter 24 of his book, to define the crime; subsequently, in 1948 Raphael Lemkin did not have to invent the word, all he had to do is translate it into Greek and Latin "Genocide", thus the words to describe the horrific crime were first coined in 1917 to describe the first large scale destruction of a race in mankind history, the

Murder of the Armenian Nation.

3) For the first time in human history the words "crimes against humanity" were pronounced by the Allied governments, in a May 24, 1915 declaration to warn Turkey that they will be held responsible for their crimes, once the war would be over.

4) For the first time in modern times, since the Spanish Inquisition, the word "Holocaust" was used to describe the first large scale "Murder of a Nation" against the Armenians of Sassoun, in eastern Turkey in 1895-96 (200,000 victims); the second large scale "Murder of a Nation" took place against the Armenians of Adana in 1909 ( 35,000 victims) which was followed in 1915 by the largest of all (2,000 000 victims). In all these 3 "Murders of a Nation" thousands of helpless old people, women and children were locked in wooden buildings and churches and burned to death, the true Holocaust, as opposed to burning already dead bodies which does not meet the definition of Holocaust (destruction by fire).

5) War crimes tribunal: At the end of World War I, Turkey having lost the war by the side of Germany, impoverished and down on their knees, was occupied by the Allied Forces; by fear of dismemberment of the country, the provisional Turkish government, established in 1919 a military tribunal in Constantinople to try the

government officials or individuals responsible for their heinous act. Close to 10,000 people were imprisoned and all top officials, who had fled the country were sentenced to death in absentia, only one person was hanged; as time went by, the Allied Powers gradually lost interest and tried to struck separate deals with Turkey for their selfish appetites, cowardly ignoring completely the crime, especially that the Armenian side, having suffered a devastating blow was practically non-existent; and in 1923 by the time Kemal Ataturk came to power, having actively continued the massacres in the Caucasus, in Adana and Smyrna in front of the very eyes of the Allied forces, the latters ceased the occupation and the government of Kemal Ataturk the father of "Modern Turkey" started to deny the Genocide. Thus a golden opportunity was lost by the Western "civilized" world to punish, for the first time in history, crimes against humanity. This criminal attitude by the Allies

opened the way to the subsequent Genocides. The swiftness and efficiency of the Nuremberg Tribunal (a replica of the Constantinople Tribunal 26 years earlier), at the end of WW II was the direct result of the failures in1919.

6) Turkey continues the Armenian Genocide to this day:

By Illegal Territorially blockading the newly independent, already landlocked, republic of Armenia, together with its ally Azerbaijan.

• By systematically destroying the thousands historic Armenian monuments.

• By eliminating the word Armenicus from the scientific names of the flora and Fauna.

• By teaching in schools that the Armenians have committed Genocide against the Turcs.

• By not allowing the small Armenian community to maintain their churches so that eventually they become inhabitable and are ordered to shut down.

• By not allowing the ordaining of new priests and monks so that religion is eventually shut Down.

• By forbidding the descendents of forcefully turkified Armenians to speak up and tell their stories, refer to "My Grandmother" by Fethiye Cetin.

• By prosecuting those who speak or write about the Armenian Genocide, among them Orhan Pamuk (the Nobel litterature prize winner) and historian Taner Akcam, under a bogus Article 301 of the penal code, by bringing charges for "insulting Turkishness".

• By hiring academics in western democracies to rewrite distorted history about the Armenian Genocide, and say that it was the Armenians who massacred the Turcs.

• By hiring lobbyists and spending millions of dollars every month to block the passage of resolution 106 that recognizes the Armenian Genocide in US Congress and Senate and to derail any military, economic, or social agreements between the US and Armenia.

7) The deniers of the Armenian Genocide:

Starting from 1923, Turkey the perpetrator, still denies the crime, but the majority of Western democracies have acknowledged the Arrmenian Genocide. The important countries who still deny, and have joined Turkey, are the U.S., Israel, the U.K ( the axis of evil) and Germany, who are the principal reason for Turkey's denial; those 4 countries who never miss the occasion to portray themselves as "civilized" and advanced "democracies" are tarnishing their images in the world and are sending the wrong message to the world by encouraging the countries with appetite for genocide like Turkey to continue unchecked to commit Genocides against the Armenians (as outlined above), the Kurds in Turkey (worse than the Genocide committed by Saddam Hussein against the Iraqi Kurds) and against the Cypriots, where Turkey is still illegally occupying almost half of the Island since1974, having abducted more than 10,000 Cypriots during the invasion, who are still reported as missing. With so much crimes on the watch of the U.S. the "Super Power" we are led to believe that the U.S. is either accepting to be an immoral country or is a "Super Puppet" yielding to foreign countries'

lobbies.

It is important to remind that Germany, the ally of Turkey during WW I, is directly implicated in the Genocide, because the Turkish army was alternately under Turkish / German command on a 3 monthly basis and the Genocide was occuring in front of the very eyes of the German officers; but the German government was either keeping quite or denying the truth. Heroically, some German officers, risking punishment, described the horrors in their diaries and took photographs.

It is not a coincidence therefore, when ordering his army to invade Poland in 1939, that Hitler said "Who, after all, speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?"; he had in his ranks advising officers with first hand experience, acquired 25 years ealier when stationed in Turkey, in carrying out the Genocide against the Armenians.

C- Amanpour's documentary was disappointing:

Since Amanpour did not mention any of the above indispensible facts, as a minimum prerequisite to comprehend the Armenian Genocide, and which demonstrate the classic nature of this genocide encompassing all facets of the crime more than any other Genocide, thus making it a text-book case, to which everyone should refer for research on the subject of Genocide and human rights, we can conclude that:

• 1) Either she is incapable of reporting the subjects with an in-depth analysis.

• 2) Or she is ignorant and not well read.

• 3) Or she has fallen victim to the pressures of the lobbying forces, as mentioned above, and she compromised with the lobbyists, by mentioning only superficially the Armenian Genocide, to just avoid jeopardizing her job within CNN as the Chief International Correspondent.

D- Epilog:

Which of the above 3 categories she may fall in, Amanpour owes a detailed explanation, to the well informed as well as to the ignorant viewers, for her superficial documentary.

Sincerely.