How to Deny Evil

To me, it's unimaginable that someone would try to plaster a genocide with lies, false assumptions, and general dishonesty in order to greedily or shamelessly preserve something. Specifically, I cannot wrap my head around why the Turks or Japanese would not only ignore atrocities such as the Armenian Genocide and the Rape of Nanking, but actively deny that these are atrocities at all. The Turkish government in particular is guilty of ignoring the Armenian Genocide. The Turks have a perfect environment to cover this up with a little bit of dirt and say nothing is buried underneath. First off, they have a monetary motive to deny the Armenian Genocide. If they acknowledge the genocide, they would need to pay an obscene amount of money to compensate the Armenians. Lawsuits will be filed over atrocities, stolen goods, and possibly other claims. Another reasons the Turks deny the genocide is a sense of false national pride. The idea that the Turks embrace is that if that wasn't a genocide, their record is clean and they can continue being a proud people. However, if I was a teenager in Turkey with adequate access to information, I would be even more ashamed of the Turkish government trying to deny the genocide than the actual genocide. One of the worst aspects of this fiasco is that the Turks force all of their allies to say that the Armenian Genocide never happened. With all of the chaos surrounding the Middle East nowadays, Turkey is an important NATO base of operations. If some NATO nations suddenly said that the Armenian Genocide happened and was perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks, Turkey will kick everyone out and the Middle East situation could deteriorate even further. Because of all of the extortion, lying, and greed, the denial the Turkish government is spewing, the denial of the Armenian Genocide is immoral beyond belief and should be discontinued as a political policy as soon as possible.