They killed the Armenians using several methods. First, those who were in the army were disarmed, placed in labor battalions, and then killed. Second, the Armenian political and intellectual leaders were rounded up on April 24, 1915, and then killed. This date is Armenians all over the world commemorate this great tragedy. And finally, the remaining Armenians were called from their home, thinking that they were going to be relocated, and marched to concentration camps in the middle of the dessert, where they would die from lack of food and water.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
Fearing Turkish aggression, the country accepted the protection of the Soviets in 1920 and in 1922 joined with Georgia and Azerbaijan to form the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). In 1936, Armenia became an independent constituent republic of the USSR. In 1988, nearly 55,000 Armenians were killed in an earthquake that destroyed several cities. Since independence, in 1991, fighting between Armenia and largely Muslim Azerbaijan over the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh has kept political tensions high in the
Al Anfal Genocide Genocide is the systematic destruction of part or all of an ethnic, religious, racial, or national group of people. Throughout history there have been several horrendous genocides. One of the more horrendous genocides was the Al Anfal genocide. The Al Anfal genocide, or also known as The Kurdish Genocide, was an attempt to exterminate the Kurdish population in northern Iraq in the late 1980’s. Al Anfal literally means the spoils of war.
Rachel Tibbetts Claudia Gonzalez The Greek Genocide Who: The Ottoman Empire committed genocidal acts against all the Christian minorities, which included the Christian ottoman Greeks consisting of both the Pontiacs and the Anatolians. These Christian Greeks were all victims to a much broader Turkish genocidal project that was also against Armenians, and Assyrians. All of these minorities including the Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians were killed under the regimes of the Young Turks, a Turkish nationalist reform party in the early 20th century, and of Mustafa Kemal, the second president of Turkey as of 1930. What: The Greek genocide, also know as the Pontiac genocide, was the systematic ethnic cleansing of the Christian Ottoman Greek
This stemmed from the fall of dictator Said Barre’s communist government. Within 2 months, 20,000 people were killed (Forrest 1). The fuel for this fire was inter-clan strife. The various clans were all vying to fill the vacuum formed by the fall of the government. Then, things got worst.
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.