Armenia and the Task of Remembering
By Francis X. Maier
'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.'
It's a line typically attributed to Josef Stalin, an accomplished veteran of mass homicide, though it probably predates him by decades. The words are nonetheless true. The mind can only grasp so much suffering. The bigger the crime against humanity, the quicker it becomes a mere number – and the more unreal the personal savagery behind it seems.
Ninety years after Stalin's murderous Holodomor famine in Ukraine, eighty years after Auschwitz, and with dozens of "little" genocides and ethnic and religious wars since…
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