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.
In the United States a number of prominent leaders and organizations established fundraising drives for the remnants of the "Starving Armenians". In Europe the Allied Powers gave public notice that they would hold personally responsible all members of the Turkish government and others who had planned or participated in the massacres. Yet, within a few years, these same governments and statesmen turned away from the Armenians in total disregard of their pledges. Soon the Armenian genocide had become the "Forgotten Genocide". In effect, the Turkish government had succeeded in its diabolical plan to exterminate the Armenian population from what is now Turkey.
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.
It is determined that 1.5 million out of the 2 million Armenians were killed in this genocide. The only part of the Armenian cultural remaining is their language, songs, poetry, and their tragic memories (Adalian). To the rest of the world the Armenian genocide is unclear and many governments do not except this occurrence as genocide. During the time of the genocide many governments were preoccupied with their countries involvement in WWI. This led to a lack of any attempts to try and stop it from occurring and as some were rescued the overall outcome was too little too late (Adalian).
Armenians first migrated to North America in large numbers following the massacres of 1894–95 at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. An attempted genocide during World War I (1914–18) led to another influx. Finally, the rise of Arab nationalism during the 1950s led to the emigration of tens of thousands of Armenians from Islamic countries throughout the Middle East. In the U.S. census of 2000 and the Canadian census of 2001, 385,488 Americans claimed Armenian descent, while 40,505 did so in Canada. The early centers of Armenian settlement in the United States were New York City, Boston, and Fresno, California.
It began in April of 1915 when the Ottoman government set upon the systematic discrimination of its Armenian population. This persecution continued until the Ottoman Empire died and was replaced by the Republic of Turkey in 1923. The Armenian population of the Ottoman state was about two million in 1915. One million had perished by 1918 while hundreds and thousands became homeless and stateless. By 1923 the entire Armenian population of Anatolian Turkey had disappeared.
Zachary Young Contemp. U.S History HIS 229 1) The main topic in the film we watched in Mondays’ class was The Great Famine in Russia in the early 1900’s. The Great Famine was detrimental to Russia. It killed millions of people, and could be said to have started with an economic crisis. 2) There were a few “major players” involved with this situation, but I think the main figure was President Herbert Hoover.
Looking back I realize I wasn’t in any danger, I was found with a call on the phone. Ishmael didn’t have the option to call his family. At 10 years old, Ishmael Beah ran for his life and became lost in the middle of nowhere. I can’t imagine what it would have been like if I didn’t have that friendly stranger walk by to lend me her phone. No one had a cell phone in Sierra Leone so getting lost is a lot more dangerous than it is here.
 Hotel Rwanda Analysis In the movie Hotel Rwanda the writer Sujit R. Varma gives you a depiction and reenactment of events that took place about 15 years ago in the city of Rwanda. These events may be one of the harshest of genocides in history. In only about 3 months millions of people were brutally murdered along with children and babies, which is an incredibly large amount of people in that short time span. Even though they were in the era where there were heavy mass media, around the clock news and constant updates, the brutal events were basically unnoticed by the rest of the world. In these events the writer focuses on a hotel manager by the name of Paul Rusesabagina that manages to save his family and a lot of others from the event of the civil war between the Tutsi and Hutu people.
“Human Rights Watch” called this 1992 massacre carried out by Armenian military forces against 613 Azerbaijani civilians, including 106 women and 63 children, as "the largest massacre to date in the conflict." Major U.S. and international media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Independent and others reported about the massacre with horror. While all perpetrators of the tragic events mentioned by ACR 96 were caught, tried and sentenced by the court of law, the executors of 1992 Khojaly Massacre, to this day, have never been brought to justice. Therefore, I call on the California State Assembly members to unanimously reject this flawed, biased, and unjust resolution ACR 96, which encourages racial animosity and hatred.