Serj Tankian’s condemns Holocaust in new music video

World-renowned US-Armenian singer and song writer Serj Tankian has depicted the horrors of holocaust in a new music video.

The song, Օccupied Tears, is from the singer’s album Harakiri. It can also be accessed on YouTube.

The music video, in a narrow sense, is not devoted to the Armenian Genocide or the Jewish Holocaust as such. It is a protest against the crimes of genocide in general. It addresses the topic from the philosophical rather than the political standpoint.

Reminding of the horrors of what he terms as holocaust and criticizing belligerency, the System of a Down vocalist confirms that the humankind has not forgotten anything. He periodically poses the rhetorical question, how can you just occupy another child’s tear?

In figurative terms, Tankian can be said to have hara-kiri’ed the terms genocide and holocaust, by using different figurative expressive means of art.