Denying Armenian genocide sets the template

September 12, 2025

Jaron Sutton asks if atrocities in Gaza will be “effectively suppressed". If history is a guide, then yes.

For more than a century, most nations have been co-opted to effectively suppress the Armenian and Ottoman Christian Genocide (also called Assyrian and Greek Genocide). Between 1913-23, an estimated 1.5 million Armenians and 250,000 to 500,000 Assyrians were slaughtered, along with an estimated 300,000 Pontic and Anatolian Greeks.

Denial, including the refusal of mainstream media and policy commentators, reinforces the words of Adolf Hitler, who said on the eve of unleashing the Holocaust:

“I have placed my death-head formation in readiness — for the present only in the East — with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women and children of Polish derivation and language. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

Although Anzac PoWs witnessed and recorded the first genocide of the 20th century, no one today speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians. Despite repeated attempts, Australia’s collective media suppress the genocide following intense lobbying by Turkish interests.