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“UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations dismantled an exhibition on the Rwandan genocide and postponed its scheduled opening after the Turkish mission objected to references to the Armenian genocide in Turkey at the time of World War I.” — The New York Times.

Members of the Flat Earth Society take heart. Your cause is not lost.

Global warming deniers stand firm. Dick Cheney’s oil company pals may yet pay off enough needy science professors to lie for them.

If the Turks, despite the mountains of evidence, including eye-witness testimony, can get away for 92 years with pretending that the slaughter of more than a million Armenians didn’t happen, then there’s hope for any group or government determined to keep reality at arm’s length.

It boggles the mind that after all these years, all the books, all the eye-witness accounts and, yes, the trials when some of the perpetrators were called to account and admitted their roles in the atrocities, although most of them escaped punishment, that we are still being confronted by an official cover-up of that monstrous deed, and the governments of the world, not to mention most of the newspapers that cover them, are willing to put up with it.

In some European countries, you can go to prison for denying the Nazi’s Holocaust that took the lives of 6 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and assorted others.
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