The Armenian Genocide is sometimes referred to as the Armenian Holocaust because it reflects some of the Holocausts key attributes. Primarily, it was a targeted execution of the Armenian population (an ethnic group) living in the Ottoman Empire. The Armenians had once been their own country but then had been absorbed into the Ottoman Empire. Soon following the beginning of Ottoman rule, the Ottoman government began persecuting Armenians. This persecution began by limiting the Armenians rights and treating them like a lower class of civilian, on the grounds of the Armenians not being Muslim. Over time, the Ottoman government feared that the Armenian people would rebel and “between 1894 and 1896, this [persecution] took the form of a state-sanctioned
