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The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response presents a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians during the 1890s and genocide in 1915 at the responsibility of the Ottoman Turks. Using rare archival documents and remarkable first-person accounts, Peter Balakian shows the chilling history of how the Young Turk government took the first modern genocide behind the cover of World War I.
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Peter Balakian's The Burning Tigris is a gripping treatment of the official Turkish mass murder of a while people, an event that adds its insane horror to the copious disgrace earned by the twentieth century. The book, fully documented with appaling details, is a masterpiece of moral history, and it needs to be widely read. [1] |
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The Burning Tigris does succeed in resurrecting a little-known chapter of American as well as Armenian history. It also underscores a crucial point about humanitarian responses to violations of human rights: outrage and outpourings of sympathy and aid may save some lives, but -- as the 20th century would show time and again -- they have little real impact in the face of state interests that militate against intervention. With The Burning Tigris Peter Balakian forcefully reminds us that almost a century after the Armenian genocide, the international community has yet to find a means of implementing Charlotte Perkins Gilman's vision, as pertinent today as it was in 1903: National crimes demand international law, to restrain, prohibit, punish, best of all, prevent. [2] |
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- ^ Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory
- ^ The New York Times - Belinda Cooper
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