{"id":9258,"date":"2022-02-18T19:31:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T19:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=9258"},"modified":"2022-04-28T14:43:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T14:43:03","slug":"consequences-of-genocide-denial-the-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/event\/consequences-of-genocide-denial-the-armenian-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Consequences of Genocide Denial: The Armenian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql\">On April 16 at 1:00 PM, Ara A. Jeknavorian, Ph.D., of the Merrimack Valley Armenian Genocide Education Committee, will present \u201cConsequences of Genocide Denial\u201d at the <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/place\/fort-devens-museum\/\">Fort Devens Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle\">At the risk of infuriating Turkey, President Biden formally announced in 2021 that the United States regards the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by Turks more than a century ago to be a genocide \u2014 the most monstrous of crimes. Mr. Biden was the first American president to make such an announcement, breaking with predecessors who did not wish to antagonize Turkey, a NATO ally and a strategically pivotal country straddling Europe and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle\">While this announcement carries enormous symbolic weight-equating the premeditated mass murder of 1.5 million Armenian men, women, and children from 1915-23 to the atrocities committed in Nazi-occupied Europe, Cambodia and Rwanda-its incomprehensible continued denial and the lack of accountability by the Turkish Government can be linked to enabling subsequent cases of man\u2019s inhumanity to man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle\">The presentation on Consequences of Genocide Denial provides a discussion on the causes and impact of the Armenian Genocide on 3000 years of Armenian Civilization in eastern Turkey, and how its denial by its perpetrators has led to subsequent genocides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 16 at 1:00 PM, Ara A. Jeknavorian, Ph.D., of the Merrimack Valley Armenian Genocide Education Committee, will present \u201cConsequences of Genocide Denial\u201d at the Fort Devens Museum. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9261,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tag":[3,128],"tribe_events_cat":[101],"class_list":["post-9258","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-museums","tag-free","tribe_events_cat-talks","cat_talks"],"acf":{"explore_list_featured_select":"2","select_experience":[1866],"select_topic":[1878],"select_theme":false,"select_location":[1929,1910],"select_audience":false,"descriptor":"Things to Do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/9258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/9258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9272,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/9258\/revisions\/9272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag?post=9258"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=9258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}