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The second Armenian genocide, 2020

John E Marks
2 min readDec 13, 2020

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Photo by Naz Israelyan on Unsplash

President Emmanuel Macron of France said on Wednesday, September 28, that a proxy of Syrian fighters has been deployed from southern Turkey To Azerbaijan.

The war has now begun
And will end in the holy city
Of Jerusalem.
And many will burn their eyes
Before she is done, or dies.

The Turks refuse to accept the Armenian genocide of 1915. Now, in 2020
Armenians are, again, being taxed in blood for being Christian,
The remains of the non-Islamic east,
Battered by Azeris, Daesh, Syrians, Turks.
Armenians receive no help from the ex-Christian west:
The Azeris armed and helped by the Americans and Israelis
Launch an all-out attack.
The suffering Armenians have seen it all before.
1400 years of persecution.
Worse, much worse,
Since the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

But this aristocrat’s a creature of ascendancy
red-jewelled, attracted by oblivion
she struggles on
dreams by day lies by night.

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John E Marks
John E Marks

Written by John E Marks

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot

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