Robert Fisk tells all

Dec 9th, 2005
Online Journal
By Sonia Nettnin
Online Journal Contributing Writer

CHICAGO -- On a U.S. tour, award-winning journalist Robert Fisk spoke about his life work as a veteran journalist reporting about the Middle East.

Fisk is the Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper, The Independent. For almost 30 years he has been a journalist and, with over 28 foreign press awards, he is one of the most decorated journalists in the world.
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[...] Fisk talked about The First Holocaust, the Armenia Holocaust of the 20th century. In 1915 1.5 million Armenians were murdered by the Turks. Over the years Fisk interviewed elderly Armenian survivors who shared their experiences with the genocide. Based on interviews, letters and the extensive research of historians and scholars about the First Holocaust, Fisk devotes a chapter in history about the ethnic genocide of a Christian people indigenous to the Middle East.

Fisk gave this moment in history a context within current, political affairs. Thus far, President George W. Bush has referred to the April genocide with words such as tragedy and suffering.

"This is what happens when we allow governments to take precedence over history," Fisk said.
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