Armenian Genocide (?) and the US-Turkey Relations

Part 5 of the testimony of Brigitte Kitenge, a survivor of the Rwandan Genocide which claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis in 1994, regarding her experience as a survivor of unspeakable human tragedy. Brigitte Kitenge met her husband, Leon, when he left the Congo to teach at a Rwandan university. But the early 1990s was the wrong time to be in love with a young Rwandan woman who was half Hutu and half Tutsi. When the genocide began, most of Brigitte's extended family was massacred. The couple's two daughters had to be told that their mother was dead so that they could not inadvertently reveal her whereabouts as she hid from the roving death squads. Brigitte was pregnant with their third child when they escaped to the Congo, where Leon's family demanded that he put his wife and children aside and marry a Congolese woman. When he refused, they turned the couple away. The Kitenges remained in Congo for a few years while Brigitte had her baby, obtained her masters in business administration and landed a job with a U.S. nonprofit organization. But soon Brigitte was in danger again. Congo was backing the Rwandan government's genocidal war, and Brigitte's contact with Americans made her a particular target. Accused of being a U.S. spy, Brigitte was arrested and tortured by Congolese authorities. She was allowed just a few minutes each evening to breastfeed her third daughter at the prison. Eventually, Brigitte was released. Pregnant now with her fourth child, she fled to Uganda, crossing the border by pretending to be in labor while the driver told border authorities, "The hospital back there is closed! We have to get this woman to the hospital on your side!" Brigitte made it to Uganda with nothing but the clothes on her back. Leon and her daughters joined her a short time later. In this extended interview for youtube, Brigitte gives testimony and tells the full story of her experience and inspiring story of struggle and survival as well as the horrors she witnessed during one of the worst acts of genocide in recent human history.

Part 2 of the testimony of Brigitte Kitenge, a survivor of the Rwandan Genocide which claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis in 1994, regarding her experience as a survivor of unspeakable human tragedy. Brigitte Kitenge met her husband, Leon, when he left the Congo to teach at a Rwandan university. But the early 1990s was the wrong time to be in love with a young Rwandan woman who was half Hutu and half Tutsi. When the genocide began, most of Brigitte's extended family was massacred. The couple's two daughters had to be told that their mother was dead so that they could not inadvertently reveal her whereabouts as she hid from the roving death squads. Brigitte was pregnant with their third child when they escaped to the Congo, where Leon's family demanded that he put his wife and children aside and marry a Congolese woman. When he refused, they turned the couple away. The Kitenges remained in Congo for a few years while Brigitte had her baby, obtained her masters in business administration and landed a job with a U.S. nonprofit organization. But soon Brigitte was in danger again. Congo was backing the Rwandan government's genocidal war, and Brigitte's contact with Americans made her a particular target. Accused of being a U.S. spy, Brigitte was arrested and tortured by Congolese authorities. She was allowed just a few minutes each evening to breastfeed her third daughter at the prison. Eventually, Brigitte was released. Pregnant now with her fourth child, she fled to Uganda, crossing the border by pretending to be in labor while the driver told border authorities, "The hospital back there is closed! We have to get this woman to the hospital on your side!" Brigitte made it to Uganda with nothing but the clothes on her back. Leon and her daughters joined her a short time later. In this extended interview for youtube, Brigitte gives testimony and tells the full story of her experience and inspiring story of struggle and survival as well as the horrors she witnessed during one of the worst acts of genocide in recent human history.

Part 3 of the testimony of Brigitte Kitenge, a survivor of the Rwandan Genocide which claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis in 1994, regarding her experience as a survivor of unspeakable human tragedy. Brigitte Kitenge met her husband, Leon, when he left the Congo to teach at a Rwandan university. But the early 1990s was the wrong time to be in love with a young Rwandan woman who was half Hutu and half Tutsi. When the genocide began, most of Brigitte's extended family was massacred. The couple's two daughters had to be told that their mother was dead so that they could not inadvertently reveal her whereabouts as she hid from the roving death squads. Brigitte was pregnant with their third child when they escaped to the Congo, where Leon's family demanded that he put his wife and children aside and marry a Congolese woman. When he refused, they turned the couple away. The Kitenges remained in Congo for a few years while Brigitte had her baby, obtained her masters in business administration and landed a job with a U.S. nonprofit organization. But soon Brigitte was in danger again. Congo was backing the Rwandan government's genocidal war, and Brigitte's contact with Americans made her a particular target. Accused of being a U.S. spy, Brigitte was arrested and tortured by Congolese authorities. She was allowed just a few minutes each evening to breastfeed her third daughter at the prison. Eventually, Brigitte was released. Pregnant now with her fourth child, she fled to Uganda, crossing the border by pretending to be in labor while the driver told border authorities, "The hospital back there is closed! We have to get this woman to the hospital on your side!" Brigitte made it to Uganda with nothing but the clothes on her back. Leon and her daughters joined her a short time later. In this extended interview for youtube, Brigitte gives testimony and tells the full story of her experience and inspiring story of struggle and survival as well as the horrors she witnessed during one of the worst acts of genocide in recent human history.

The resettlement of WWI Ottoman-Armenians who had been "belligerents de facto" for having "indignantly refused to side with Turkey," as leader Boghos Nubar worded it, has been unjustly made into a "genocide," much as there is no factual proof. Does a temporary relocation (or imprisonment, in the case of the USA) equal genocide? If so, then the USA has a lot to answer for, with its treatment of WWII German-Americans, as well as other "Axis" Americans, who remained loyal and certainly did not rebel. This video compares the treatment of "enemy" citizens