It is ironic that the week also marks the allied liberation of the Nazi concentration camps which were the site of another attempted genocide by Hitler of the Jews. It is altogether fitting that we pause to reflect as a nation that man can be a heartless and cruel species. especially as we read the news reports of the bestiality of the Vietcong in South Vietnam and the rebels in Cambodia. The Armenians had the misfortune to live in a country that formed a bridge between East and West. Consequently the invading Asiatic hordes mistreated them. as did the conquering forces of the West. In ancient times Persians. Romans.