This humanitarian cause not only affects Armenia though, it will affect the entire world. The Armenian Genocide was the first genocide of the century and has set an example for other genocide perpetrators. The resolution states that “the failure of the domestic and international authorities to punish those responsible for the Armenian genocide is a reason why similar genocides have recurred and may recur in the future” (Doyle 4). And the resolution is right because after the Armenian Genocide came the Jewish Holocaust, Rwanda Genocide, and Pol Pot in Cambodia. Adolf Hitler once said "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"
Genocide is the crime of all crimes. The first example of genocide in the 20th century is the Armenian Genocide in Anatolia during World War I. The Armenian genocide was an attempt by the Ottoman Empire to exterminate the group of people they labeled as “Christians”, because of their religious beliefs. The Turk Nationalist’s goal was to get rid of all minorities to help them secure the nation under their complete control. Emerging from the 19th century as a struggling nation, losing the Balkan Wars, a national ideology was developed to blame others for the struggles of the Ottoman Empire.
They must bear criminal responsibility for Rwanda’s genocide, not only for sprouting it, but also for their disgraceful failure to prevent and stop it. The United States, Britain, France, Belgium, the Roman Catholic Church, and the U.N. are all guilty for their failure to intervene. [38] “The international community didn’t give one damn for Rwandans because Rwanda was a country of no strategic importance,” said General Romeo Dallaire, the commander of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the country at the time.”It’s up to Rwanda not to let others forget they are criminally responsible for the genocide,” he said, singling out France, Britain, and the United
The assassination could have been prevented if Serbia attempted to make agreements to solve battles of the Serbians and slave against Austro Hungarians because as a result, the Serbians and the slaves earned no reward after the assassination, it just gave them an excused to attack them. I think that it was not a considerate action by the Serbians to be acting so radical when they hold a slighter power compared to the Austro Hungarians. Secondly, WW1 could have been avoided if the countries of Western Europe didn’t hold any guidelines of militarism were not corrupt and were not influenced by the military. It would have been possible that the governments would resolve the issue through words rather than starting a world war. Lastly, If Germany did not attack Belgium, Britain and along and their allies, they would have not been included in the War.
From 1915 to 1923, Armenians were persecuted, beaten, stolen from, degraded, and deported. They were sent into places like the desert to die. To this day, the topic of the Armenian genocide remains a sensitive subject within diplomatic communities. According to Dr. Emil Souleimanov, assistant professor at the Department of Russian and East European Studies, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic and author of “An Endless War: The Russian-Chechen Conflict in Perspective“ (Peter Lang, 2007) “The dilemma of the so-called Armenian genocide remains a key political topic, which separates Armenia and the Turkish Republic and causes tension in the entire region.”. Genocide is a problem that does not go away over time; it stays present and festers until the situation is completely
The long and tough battle to document the Armenian genocide and its plan by the Young Turk Ittihadist government has limited the exploration of the role of other nations in the genocide. Questions about Germany's role in the massacre of nearly one million Armenians from 1915-1916 linger because of Germany's close association with Turkey before and during the First World War. Two lines of thought persist about the nature of Germany's involvement: either Germany had nothing to do with the genocide or Germany instigated it. In German Responsibility in the Armenian Genocide: A Review of the Historical Evidence of German Complicity, Vahakn N. Dadrian, the author of the landmark History of the Armenian Genocide, takes the middle road. Dadrian does not accuse Germany of instigating the Armenian genocide; he argues instead that Germany contributed to the genocide through policies that condoned it and that the German government sanctioned German and Turkish officials who participated in the genocide's implementation.
Seeming to drag its feet in this enforcement, the nations of the UN take ages to rule a certain large-scale state-sponsored killing as genocide. In the meantime the bodies pile up. Just what transpires behind the walls of an ethnic group or a government engaging in genocide? The Young Turks and the Armenians (1915-1918, 1,500,000 dead) For over three centuries there existed an Armenian community in Asia Minor. This community was invaded by the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century, which ruled over all of Southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
Even the world’s biggest peacekeeping force cannot stop the battling between the two ethnic groups to this day. The genocide in Rwanda was a tragic event and an event that should be prevented from happening in the future. Government was the mastermind behind this disaster. All in all the things the Hutus did was not
Moreover, as Britain was one of the major power of the WWI, the effects on both of their men and arms were not recovered from the WWI. This also led Chamberlain hesitant to take part for a large war at this time. Thus, making an appeasement with the Germans was the best solution for them to be recovered and prepared later in the future because rather than fighting a big war against advanced army with unprepared-no men army, they would fight a war with recovered army even if the opponents might grow more. ! Back again to 1919, the Treaty of Versailles made conclusions to the German’s territorial, armed forces, colonies, preparations and indemnity, and the war guilt issues.
When a political party carries out a genocide, an outside force is always needed to stop the genocide in its tracks. It was only after the U.S. took action in Germany that the Holocaust was brought to an end. This shows that the United States has the power to threaten any outside force that is carrying out a genocide and it also has the power needed to stop one. If the U.S. is already involved in too many conflicts and cannot take the toll to supply troops to the genocidal area, then it should take a role economically to stop the genocide. If the United States sends material aid to the victims of the genocide, they will be able to fight the perpetrators much more easily.