The first public response to the gruesome crime committed in Pemzashen, before the arrest of the suspects, was quite interesting. It seems like both in facebook and in real life the dominating opinion was the following: Armenians couldn’t have done that to other Armenians, the Turks are definitely involved. Yet it was found out promptly that the murderers of the 31-year old woman and her two children were very likely to be Armenians, and even the fellow villagers of the victims.
When an Armenian or a representative of another nation says “No, we aren’t like that”, what do they mean, I wonder? Does this mean that an exclusive sort of blood flows in the veins of a given nation, which disallows inhumanity in general, or maybe inhumanity towards their “blood brothers” specifically? In that case, allow me to ask – aren’t Russians and Ukrainians “blood brothers”? If you believe that the “genetic code” determines the behaviour of a nation, aren’t the “codes” of those two close? Or are the cultures, religion and languages of two nations distant? How do you explain the cruelty in that case?
Thus, the “Armenian gene” does not determine anything – neither kindness, nor cruelty, nor intellect, nor stupidity.
Another issue is when propagandists brainwash people into thinking that their group is the embodiment of all kinds of righteousness, while the opposite group is an enemy that deserves to be annihilated. But the process of people influenced by propaganda becoming savage might not be caused by national differences exclusively. The 4-year long propaganda of the Armenian government serves as an example.
By the way, the concept of a “Turk”, if we go along with the “blood theory”, is again, relative. A part of the multinational Ottoman empire population finally became Turkish in the 20-th century, during Mustafa Kemal’s rule. So if we check the “genetic code” of Turks who committed crimes against Armenians, we might find out other nations’ “codes”, including Armenian.
Consequently, cruelty does not have anything to do with the genes of an Armenian or a Turk. The correct comment would be: A human could not have done that.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
