"It's only a small grave, a rectangle of cheap
concrete marking it out, blessed by a flourish of wild yellow lilies.
Inside are the powdered bones and skulls and bits of femur of up to 300
children, Armenian orphans of the great 1915 genocide who died of
cholera and starvation as the Turkish authorities tried to "Turkify"
them in a converted Catholic college high above Beirut. But for once, it
is the almost unknown story of the surviving 1,200 children – between
three and 15 years old – who lived in the crowded dormitory of this
ironically beautiful cut-stone school that proves that the Turks did
indeed commit genocide against the Armenians in 1915."
"Barack Obama and his pliant Secretary of State,
Hillary Clinton – who are now campaigning so pitifully to prevent the US
Congress acknowledging that the Ottoman Turkish massacre of 1.5 million
Armenians was a genocide – should come here to this Lebanese hilltop
village and hang their heads in shame. For this is a tragic, appalling
tale of brutality against small and defenceless children whose families
had already been murdered by Turkish forces at the height of the First
World War, some of whom were to recall how they were forced to grind up
and eat the skeletons of their dead fellow child orphans in order to
survive starvation."
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