[berntb]

First comment from a nine minutes old account... Ask with your real account and I'll answer.

Edit: Oh, wtf... see the censoring of the Armenian genocide in Turkey. Also afaik, they don't teach in Pakistan about what happened in Bangladesh in the early 70s.

[_b8r0]

You bring a good point to the thread about sins of the father, although you might not have realised it.

The Armenian government claims that the Turkish government is responsible for the Armenian genocide, although the Turkish republic (and it's government) didn't exist at the time. This is a bit like blaming the US for atrocities committed by the republic of Texas in California.

The decision about censoring the Armenian genocide is purely political and saddens me, but it's more to do with geopolitics than history.

[berntb]

The Pakistani government couldn't argue that, but Japan and most every other country ("It was a previous government, doesn't reflect us as a country at all"). It isn't that simple, sadly.