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I have an Armenian friend so I hear about it once in a while, their widespread slaughter by the Turks ranks right up there with some of the worst atrocities. I'm not even up to speed as to the motivations, but I'm sure it relates to maintaining power and concepts of ethnic cleansing the "homeland".
Another one that crosses my mind occasionally is how the mostly European settlers slaughtered, subjugated, and dehumanized the American Native Indians, basically so they/we could take over and control all the land and resources for our own purposes. In spite of the fact that I often oppose such "welfare programs", in this case my feelings about what was done to them makes me much more open minded about even huge government "hand-backs" or payments, even if only as a symbol of compensation for something that can never be compensated.
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