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"The Crimson Field" Historic Novel by Rosie Malek-Yonan These days, the Jewish lobby in America, Armenian scholars lecturing around the world, and the government in Ankara have a tendency to trivialize almost everything that touches the subject of the extermination of two out of every three Assyrian in 1915. The year 2005 was the 90th anniversary of the most horrific episode in the modern history of the Assyrian people. Ninety years before, the Young Turks ordered the killing and deportation of millions of Christians Assyrians, Armenians, and Greeks. The rest of the world neither knew or cared about the commemoration of the Seyfo Genocide until the publication of “The Crimson Field”. Acknowledging the worldwide significance of its educational impact and the remarkably creative method by which it conveyed the unspoken facts about the most momentous years in our recent history, Zinda Magazine names the publication of Rosie Malek-Yonan’s “The Crimson Field” as the “Event of the Year 6755”. What makes “The Crimson Field” so riveting, so unorthodox, is its uncommon portrayal of the heinous acts committed against the Assyrians. Malek-Yonan leaves no stones unturned. She loads every page of her book with the horrors of the Turkish and Kurdish murderers and rapists who savored the torment of their Christian neighbors. Before September 2005 we only spoke of the Sword of Islam in 1915; after the release of “The Crimson Fields” we experienced the carnage and butchery first hand. This literary masterpiece is a chronicle of Assyrians’ struggle for hope and recognition emerging ever so slowly from heaps of despondency. It awakens its readers’ conscience to the most fundamental factor in the survival of the Assyrian nationalism and heritage, the Assyrian strength of character and resolve to excel under any condition. “The Crimson Fields” made the Seyfo Genocide, unquestionably a very difficult material to analyze and comprehend, accessible to mass audiences both Assyrian and non-Assyrian. Hopefully, Malek-Yonan’s grisly interpretation of those dreaded real events would soon be exhibited on stage and in movies, where even larger audiences will become aware. The mass killing and deportations of the Assyrians between 1915 and 1923 is a story pleading admission. Rosie Malek-Yonan’s book, through its sophisticated approach to history, was the most unsurpassed manner of shamelessly scolding nine decades of silence and omission. “The Crimson Field” was our finest answer to history. | |||||||||||||||||||
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