The Genocide of the Armenians by the Turkish government during World War I represents a major tragedy of the modern age. In this the first Genocide of the 20th century, almost an entire nation was destroyed. The Armenian people were effectively eliminated from the homeland they had occupied for nearly three thousand years. This annihilation was premeditated and planned to be carried out under the cover of war. During the night of April 23-24, 1915, Armenian political, religious, educational, and intellectual leaders in Istanbul were arrested, deported to the interior, and mercilessly put to death.
Everyone was shocked and thought it was the end of the world when the Roman Empire collapsed. Jerome, an important person in the early Christian church, wrote to his friend Gregory. Savage Nations invaded Gaul, thousands of men have been massacred. All the towns are empty. It was hard for him to talk without crying.
TJ Ledbury Period 7 English September 28, 2010 Dehumanizing of the Armenians The Armenian Genocide that swept through on April 24th, 1914, seems so forgotten. The Turkish Government had the idea that if they denied this so called Genocide then later on in time people would just forget about it and pretend like it never happened. The Turkish soldiers went from city to city and state to state taking away every single Armenian family and took them away. The goals of the Turks were to do one thing and one thing only, dehumanize the Armenians. The three main ways they did this were, starvation, making them feel alone and unwanted, and just killing everyone.
Thesis: Before the problem of the Armenian genocide the Armenian and the Turk lived in harmony as second class citizen. A century ago the Armenian genocide was one of the most massive and horrific time there ever was. Around in 1915, the Turkish government wanted to get rid of all Armenians in three steps, as this go on the Armenian race was on a thin line onto extermination. As in today in the 21st century, people are affected of what happen in the past and mostly the Armenians are angered at the Turkish because the Turks still today deny that there was ever genocide toward the Armenian. Life before the Genocide: Although Armenians were second class citizens in the Ottoman Empire; they lived in relative harmony with Turks for centuries before the forces of nationalism transformed the situation.
This greatly influenced the Ottomans to carry out a policy to eliminate its Christian Armenian minority. For years prior to the beginning of the war, the Armenians were already witnessing massacres that were being carried out toward their people. The Ottoman government viewed WWI as an opportunity to rid the country of its Armenian
The museum gave me sadness, the sadness gave me realization, and the realization gave me thoughts. We thought about all the things that were done. The Cherokee Indians were forced out of their lands and they ended up dying. The Nazis killed millions of people. The KKK also murdered many people.
1). Churches and entire towns were burned down; the town of Dordrecht was burned down by Barbarian tribes such as the Vikings triggered chaos (Doc.3). This caused people to abandon their lifestyles and that meant a decline in trade, which brought down the economy. During this period of time most people were
One of the main ideas of this article was to open the read’s eyes to how many hardships the natives had to face starting with the rapid destruction of their population. “Alien microbes killed vast numbers of natives, sometimes before the victims had seen a white of black face.”(pg. 4). The disease that spread through the New World had wiped out many Native Americans, especially targeting the old and the young. The population of the natives was lowered to an amount they left them without enough people to sustains their lifestyles, they didn’t have enough people to hunt, gather, and farm, and they didn’t have the elders to keep their traditions and values alive.
The Armenian people had a lot to move on from. Almost all their population was wiped out. The Kurdish Genocide was centrally planned and administered by the Iraqi Government against the entire Kurdish population. In Sarafian Fernandes’ paper “After 16 March 1988, one word came to symbolize the tragedy of the Kurds -- Halabja. Halabja is the Kurdish Auschwitz; not because the scale of the massacre was comparable with that of the Nazi death camp, but because the victims were chosen merely because they were Kurdish civilians.” In the beginning before the genocide, Armenians, Kurds and Turks lived in relative harmony in the Ottoman Empire for centuries.
DOC K: The Christians on the other hand did the exact opposite. They abandoned their families and their religion and only cared about themselves and did everything they could do to survive. DOC G: They threw the dead in a ditch to be picked up and thrown in a large burial site where hundreds of bodies lay until it filled to the top and they began to dig another one. No respect was shown to the sick or the deceased. Only taking three years, the Black Death killed just under half the world’s population.