What goes around comes around.

I have just finished reading The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian.  Despite it's romantic-sounding title it's a horrible tale of genocide by the Ottoman Empire toward the Armenians . . . the same area that is now Syria.  The Armenians were mostly Christian (it was the first Christian country) and treated as second class citizens by the Turks.  The Turks felt that the Armenians  would side with the Russians if the country was invaded . . . sooooo, they were rounded up and killed, one way or another.  I feel so ignorant.  I didn't know.