Armenians really do seem to be the universal whipping boy in that part of the world. It seems like every decade or so more Armenians get massacred somewhere or other.
I'm really not sure why that is. I know the Russian stereotype of Armenians, which I am sure they picked up from the Caucasians, is that they are shifty, mendacious, and money-hungry merchants always trying to rip you off. Sort of like stereotypes of a different ethnic group I can think of, in fact.
--- Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote: 2) One angle that is always interestingly left out of this the Kurds. People always say the Turks massacred the Armenians. But a lot a
people doing the massacrering were Kurds. This was something held over their heads for years. It came up at the end of Gulf War I, when Kouchner was
organizing refugee aid for the Kurds fleeing Saddam's crack down (aid
that would eventually evolve into the Northern no-fly zone).
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