As Orwell said in 1984: Ignorance is Strength, the strength of totalitarian regimes. This article should have been published and read in Turkey for all the Turkish people to read. Keeping the Turkish people ignorant about the Armenian genocide is what is making the totalitarian regime, Ataturk and "Big Brother" strong in Turkey. The Turkish people need to be educated about the Armenian genocide, but instead are being taught to hate Armenians through lies and deception, and a new generation of genocidal haters is being raised today on old Armenian land. The truth would set them free. Of course, there should be free speech in Turkey; however, I think the Genocide museum is a good idea. There the public can hear the idea witness accounts from the survivors. This should have been done long, long ago when many of the survivors were alive. All of them should have recorded their experiences. I am sad I did not learn more from my uncle who was a survivor; but his family is alive and I am sure they know much more than I was told. The story I am learning is much more sad than I imagined. I hope everyone will go the new museum. I think of the old Greek God who cried and whose tears formed a river.

Dear Garin, Thank you for verbalizing the enduring pain that has imprisoned many of the Diaspora Armenians, specifically the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the genocide survivors. I wish I could return to Van, as well. I hope that our government (the US) and others will very soon come to recognize and break the chains of injustice. Most of all, I hope that the Turks themselves will restore justice, first by apologizing for the criminal acts of their forefathers, for their past and present denials and eventually by returning to the Armenians our homeland. No peace shall exist as long as there is injustice. Please keep writing and using your pen for the sake of humanity. Regards, Ari

We were moved to tears reading the article. Thank you for bringing a fresh and new perspective to the memory of our grandparents. We are proud to have a compatriot like you.

Your article gives me confidence that the new generation of young Armenians will continue the strugle until the truth will prevail. I am the son of a survivor of the Genocide. My grand father and my two uncles were killed in fornt of my father's eyes.Turkey's desperate efforts to hide its past will fail. Krikor Krikorian New York

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You are a talented writer, and as a grandchild of a Genocide survivor, I share your pain. My grandfather was also from Kharpert and as a teenage boy (born in 1904) witnessed his mother being killed by stones right in front of his eyes. His two little sisters perished during the Genocide. It is unthinkable that a crime of this magnitude, murders of 1.5 million people, is still being actively denied in many parts of the world when people often get executed for committing one single murder.