ARMENIAN GENOCIDE NOTED: HOW ABOUT BIAFRAN GENOCIDE AND OTHERS?

ICHEOKU says the United States of America has finally acknowledged that former Othman Empire, the present day Turkey, carried out a genocide against the Armenian people. It was a long overdue admission of a historical fact of that  heinous man's inhumanity to man; an evil, which was supposed to be called by its rightful name a very long time ago. However, it is still better late than never and for this, ICHEOKU commends Joe Biden for rising up to the occasion, 106 years later. 

So with the Armenian genocide now finally given its deserving place in the annals of historical genocides, alongside the Jewish Holocaust and Rwanda Tutsis ethnic group cleansing, two other widely acknowledged genocides, when will the other similarly deliberate attempts at exterminating other various ethnic groups around the world be given their rightful names. When will their own similar circumstances be given their proper names too, as in to call a spade a spade and damn the consequences just like Joe Biden did with Armenia. It was a bold move and one day has passed following the pronouncement and the sky is still holding up firmly in the sky and the earth is neither rumbling or boiling as a result. 

The aboriginals of Australia were nearly wiped out in order for the British and other Europeans to settle on their land. The Maoris of New Zealand were similarly nearly killed off before the British and other Europeans displaced and replaced them in their motherland. The Portuguese did the same thing in Brazil and of course there was the 1967 to 1970 Biafran genocide in Nigeria wherein over 3 million Biafrans were slaughtered by the Nigerian government, aided by Britain, Russia, Egypt and America to some extent. When will all these genocides be also similarly acknowledged for what they were so that the real healing can indeed begin. Then add the Indians of America who were hunted to near extinction by the same European settlers as well. 

So, there is enough blame to go round and Turkey reserves the right to also call the Indian American experience a genocide as well if Recep Tayyip Erdogan so choses. Although nobody is seeking retribution, but it is the right thing to do to properly acknowledge these tragedies as doing so will provide some succor to the victims' surviving descendants and help them in their healing. A skewed history is better righted and it is good that Armenia eventually got their awful experience finally rightfully acknowledged by the United States of America. It gives hope to these other victims of similar experiences that some day their own horrible experiences might see the light of the day and also be properly identified for what they are, pure evil. 

ICHEOKU says it was another right step in the right direction and it will favorably count in the column of Joe Biden's legacy, provided it is properly gazetted as law and not subject to a next president's executive order override, whenever that may be. Armenia have something significant to celebrate on the occasion of the 106th anniversary of the infamy which claimed 1.3 million of their people. It is an anniversary gift of inestimable value. Now, let the Armenia slaughtered finally rest. If such pronouncement will help thaw the relationship between Turkey and Armenia, that will be an additional gift, admitted it is a tall order which will be difficult, if not impossible, to realize. 

But hey, Joe Biden braved it and the deed is done and that was the only thing that counts here; every other thing now is but the shouting. It was a good gesture, regardless of how Ankara feels about it. Germany is not fretting that Adolf Hitler's nearly wiped out the Jews, so Turkey should not sweat that part of their ignominious history that rightly belongs in their rearview mirror. It is time to move on and everybody and every party involved should look on to better days ahead and leave the past alone. Enough of the bitter clinging to what happened more than one century ago. It was a good right move by Joe Biden. Well done Joe.