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The original was posted on /r/armenia by /u/rightfromspace on 2024-11-06 20:16:33+00:00.

Forgive me if this is off topic. I do not know if it is. I am a Pontic Greek with partially Armenian heritage, and I wanted to post this here.

Tears come with learning about the past. This is not a vent post, because I wanted to point out some more generalized processes. Last year, there was a genocide, of a people I’d consider my people; there have been many other genocides and pogroms, and individualized murders. Now I just read about the Margaryan murderer, including the fact that he was extradited by a *European country* to Azerbaijan, and that he was promoted as a colonel there.

I have noticed that, unlike many other ethnic conflicts, the ones that strike Greece - but *specifically Armenia* - are uniquely sadistic. The way they treat graves… the way they are brutish without pretending to be anything else. The casual murders of people and the heroization of murderers. And the putting on of a happy face despite all of that.

Aside from that, everything else seems quite sadistic. The equivocators. The countless Europeans who treat it as a joke, or as a sideshow to their geopolitical fetishes, or who simply do not care. Our own attempts to deny the past which only lead to more pain.

The reason I am posting this here is because I wanted to tell people - and to generally bring up the topic - that these pains are shared pains. The searing pain when learning something new about the past, the direct or indirect way something about these conflicts has negatively impacted your life. The pain one feels at denialism from one’s own countrymen; the pain one feels at denialism of other countries; the pain one feels at the fact that any of this is happening in the first place.

I am available to anyone that wants to talk to me about these matters in DMs, and would appreciate mutual empathy in general in any way myself. Mostly however, I wanted to capture the negativities that many people here may experience in order to make positivity in opposition to it possible.

This post is not meant to support any opinionated point of view other than compassion for mistreated peoples.