Armenian Genocide Resolution On March 4, 2010, House Resolution 252 was narrowly passed with a 23-22 vote. This resolution stated that the mass killings and deportation of the Armenians by the Ottoman Turks was indeed genocide. The resolution passed “despite a lobbying blitz from the Turkish government, which hired an army of K Street lobbyists to fight it” (Isikoff 1). Similar resolutions had been brought to floor vote before but the Turks’ “government-to-government realpolitik triumphed, preventing a full House vote three times since 2000” (Kosterlitz 4). Most Armenians living in America are descended from survivors of the calamity and grew up listening to stories about how the Ottoman Turks led their grandparents
The intended question to be posed in this essay relates to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and its evident connection to the massacres of Armenian minority in Azerbaijan in 1988-89. The path I have chosen to answer this question leads throughout the history of Genocide in 1915. Hence, the tragedy at the outset of the twentieth century provoked the slaughter of the same prosecuted ethnical minority by the same perpetrating ethnic majority only seventy years later. According to the theory introduced by sociologist Alfred Schults, any event by its own nature has no meaning. His view is that a meaning is something ascribed to events or objects and is based on two concepts functioning evenly: the sediment of past experience and another one projected
However, most of the massacre began April 24, 1915 which ended with over 2 million killed and tortured in total. European countries treat this matter with respect to the Armenian massacres in two ways. They condemned the Ottoman state and stand up to protect the Armenians. However, they did it truly diplomatically, all their interests. When it was necessary to Turkey in something they conceded they forgot about it.
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.
As Tim Judah wrote, “This was not just ignorance but foolhardiness, for which the people of former Yugoslavia are still paying today.” Much of the ethno-nationalism felt by the people by the Bosnia-Herzegovina genocide, was a direct result of the violent and confusing history and ideologies prior to and after the World Wars. The connection between what was occurring in the Baltic States and within Turkey was strong. Until 1913, many of the Baltic states, that later formed Yugoslavia, were controlled by the Ottoman Empire. However, by the end of the Balkan Wars, the Ottoman Empire lost approximately 85 percent of their European territory and 70 percent of their European population. These shifts of power lead to uncertainty and nationalism within the newly, or almost, independent Baltic States and the shrinking Ottoman Empire.
Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. Everybody in their life time has heard about the Holocaust, but there were many other genocides besides the Holocaust. One of the other genocides is the genocide in Rwanda. Like the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda involved the government trying to annihilate the other ethnic group. The Genocide lasted from April to June of 1994.
This eventually turned into convenient interventionism; the method of intervening whenever it was beneficial and/or advantageous for the U.S. American government officials initially claimed to be reluctant towards any involvement in European affairs for decades until finally, during WWII, when the overbearing possibility of becoming a garrison state, under regulation of communists and/or fascist European governments, the American public gradually declined from the isolation sentiment they were accustomed to and began their apprehensive shift towards the same ultimate goal the Axis Powers aspired for; incontestable leadership exercised by one nation over all others and a possibility of achieving world domination. This action is known as hegemony, and most nations fought in World War II in hopes of possessing it. Front pages of most newspapers issued on December 10, 1941 all contained news of the start and progression of the Second World War. The variation of news released on this day in history was the explanation for the sudden, abundant fears shared by the nation and began construction of an important foundation for the nation-wide fellowship that forced America to break out of its accustomed
The First World War had been fought for four years when, on November 11th 1918, Germany and the Allies signed an armistice. The Allies soon gathered to discuss the peace treaty they would sign, but Germany and Austria-Hungary weren't invited; instead they were only allowed to present a response to the treaty, a response which was largely ignored. Instead terms were drawn up mainly by the ‘Big Three’: British Prime Minister Lloyd George, French Prime Minister Frances Clemenceau and US President Woodrow Wilson. The result was a treaty which tried to compromise, and many of the details were passed down to un-coordinated sub committees to work out, which thought they were drafting a starting point, rather than the final wording. It was an almost
English 101 November 29, 2010 Research Final When Two Worlds Collide: Peace Be the Enemy Knowledge of the war that rages in the Middle East to bring peace to areas that have long been troubled by conflict is widespread, but not many people are aware of the peaceful war that is being fought right here in our own backyards. While United States troops struggle to bring civil rest to the far away region, another battle is being lost on the soil that they swore to protect. This battle is not one that will be won with guns and ammunition, but rather one that will be won with peace. Each day America stands by undaunted as the Muslim communities slowly gain unbreakable footholds in our society. Each Day more individuals are converting to the Islamic way of life and they are doing it through a peaceful conversion that only those with Muslim ties could have ever dreamed possible.
The term “genocide” was made up by Raphael Lemkin in 1943. In April of 1915, the Ottoman government started the killings of the civilian Armenian population. In 1915, the Armenian population of the Ottoman State was reported at about two million. An estimated one million had perished by 1918, while others had become homeless and stateless refugees. By 1923, nearly the whole entire Armenian population disappeared.