"The Armenians want an acknowledgment that the 1915 massacre was a crime"

Geoffrey Robertson

 

Just before the invasion of Poland, Adolf Hitler urged his generals to show no mercy towards its people – there would be no retribution, because “after all, who now remembers the annihilation of the Armenians?” As the centenary of the Armenian genocide approaches – it began on 24 April 1915, with the rounding up and subsequent “disappearance” of intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople – remembrance of the destruction of more than half of the Armenian people is more important than ever. Although, as Hitler recognised in 1939 (and it is still the case today), the crime against humanity committed by the Ottoman Turks by killing the major part of this ancient Christian race has never been requited, or, in the case of Turkey, been the subject of apology or reparation.

Doomed Indian Love Story Had Happy End for the Daughter

David Brown

 



It was the anguished plea of a desperate wife and mother as Eliza  Forbes wrote: “Our beloved Kitty and Alexander thank God they are in good health and often hope to see their beloved father.”

The letter was addressed to Theodore Forbes, a wealthy Scottish  merchant who had made his fortune in India in the early 19th century.

Eliza’s appeal was the culmination of their romantic yet tumultuous  love story, which was ultimately doomed by the social attitudes to  race and marriage in colonial India. Their descendant is now second in line to the British throne.