WWIII PENDING…

 

Betsy M. Bonilla
 

It’s scary to think of what has been going on lately around the world, especially in Europe.  Things that we think do not have any effect on us because they are out of sight and out of mind. Yet in Norman M. Naimark’s book “Fires of Hatred” he forces you to look back at the horrific ethnic cleansing that has plagued Europe and has taken a toll on the world. The unnecessary sufferings of humanity are felt throughout but nothing is ever really done about it till it is too late.  As it was with the Ittihadists against the Armenians and with Holocaust, Naimark states, “No single order, or single meeting, or single action initiated the events.”  Pp 28

There is however a starting point which creates this indifference but these things take time; which mean people are being oppressed and discriminated against way before they are being killed and exterminated. At the very beginning of the book one realizes that regardless of the ultimate intent there is a fine line between ethnic cleansing and genocide, one might say that there is no line at all.

There must be this sense of Nationalism, a desire to say us and them; the need to have power and control over the less superior “them”. For example, “The Armenians represented everything that was wrong in the Ottoman realm.” Pp 22 Mostly because they supported reform and constitutional change; some 200,000 Armenians were killed or wounded just to be kept in their place. Yet for the Turks this was not enough and wanted to get rid of any or all that were not Turkish nationalist. Leading to mass deportations which needless to say had caused irrevocable pain and suffering.

 Taking a step further we come to the Ideology of what is Hitler: “extreme German Nationalism, Racism, and Anti Semitism.” Pp 58 Hitler not only wanted to push out and forcibly deport Jews out of Germany, he wanted to exterminate and sterilize them from the humanity. He was so successful in this because he used his power and influence to talk Jews down to nothing but evil doers that have contaminated society and are the cause of war and destruction. How blind must one be not to see though so many lies? How indifferent must one be to allow such horrific crimes as “mercy deaths”? pp 61Unforutanitly this was not just on the people who witnessed it and took part on it; it is also on everyone that was not willing to receive Jewish refugees.

 This leads to the Soviet deportation of the Chechens-Ingush and the Crimean Tarts. The Chechens and Ingush maintained much more cultural and religious autonomy then the Soviets would like. pp 95 Although that was not necessary the flash point in the massive forced deportation it had a lot to do with it causing tens of thousands died in wretched poverty. Pg 98

The Crimean Tarts faced similar deaths when they were forced to leave their native land of Crimean because the Soviet wanted to rid Crimean of all “foreigners”. They were ALL forced on to rail transport with sealed boxed carts which Tarts “call these Soviet rail cars ‘crematoria on wheels.’” pp 102 Even when the where allowed back into Russia they were still not allowed to return to Crimean. 

      

All of this brings me to most recent developments that have come to light in regards to the Russian military taking control of Crimean which is a direct threat to Ukraine. Have we not learned anything from the past? How much more violence must we push to the side? There are a lot of people who have tried to speak out against the injustice that has been happening for quite some time. Only until recently has there been any real media converge on the truth of the matter. Putin’s unwillingness to come forth and admit to what is clearly a strategic move to take over Ukraine should be proof enough that there is something more going on. We can all clearly see that the situation in Europe is not ideal. With all of today’s technologies it is harder to keep things quiet, so there isn’t any real surprise that there are many fabricated things out there in the media but with that also means that the truth will come out. God willing it will come out sooner than later, when it would be too late. World War II served as an excuse for genocide, mass murder of Jews, as World War I did for the Turks, with the opportunity to destroy the Armenian nations. I cannot fathom at what will occur if there is a World War III…

 

 

Naimark, Norman M. 2001. Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing In the Twentieth-Century Europe.         Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press.  
 
http://projectmaidan.com/post/78414971679/some-clarifications-regarding-ukraine
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26433309