A genocide is a planned out killing of a large group of people. Sometimes concerning a certain ethnic or religion. One of the worst genocides was “The Armenian Genocide.” In 1915 the Armenian genocide was the biggest genocide movement that was very tragic. The Armenian genocide was set into motion by the leaders of the Turkish government. The Turkish government deported and killed around 1.5 million Armenians. In the Armenian genocide there were about 2 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the time of the mass murder. The Ottoman Empire was where the main massacre of the Armenian genocide occurred.
The Armenian genocide began on April 24, 1915. On that day the Turkish government executed, arrested, and deported several hundred Armenians. After that they were sent away from their homes and sent to concentration camps and sent on death marches. They had to march through the Mesopotamian desert without any type of food or water. They were sometimes stripped and forced to walk until they died or they either stopped which they were shot. In the year of 1922, when he Armenian genocide was over, around 388,000 Armenians remained in the Ottoman Empire.
The Turks also had a part in this genocide. The Turks created a group which also created …show more content…
The first stage was classification. Classification was where they divided the Armenians into two groups. “Us” and “Them.” Even today in our society this is still common. People still believe that a genocide would be impossible without an “us” and “them.” The second stage to a genocide is symbolization. Symbolization is where symbols or words are given to the classified groups. In other genocides like the Holocaust, the group “them” was classified as a yellow star. Other genocides classify their groups by giving them ID cards, color of their skin, and color of their clothes. They say that a genocide cannot progress unless there is a very clear way to tell the groups
The Armenian genocide began on April 24, 1915. On that day the Turkish government executed, arrested, and deported several hundred Armenians. After that they were sent away from their homes and sent to concentration camps and sent on death marches. They had to march through the Mesopotamian desert without any type of food or water. They were sometimes stripped and forced to walk until they died or they either stopped which they were shot. In the year of 1922, when he Armenian genocide was over, around 388,000 Armenians remained in the Ottoman Empire.
The Turks also had a part in this genocide. The Turks created a group which also created …show more content…
The first stage was classification. Classification was where they divided the Armenians into two groups. “Us” and “Them.” Even today in our society this is still common. People still believe that a genocide would be impossible without an “us” and “them.” The second stage to a genocide is symbolization. Symbolization is where symbols or words are given to the classified groups. In other genocides like the Holocaust, the group “them” was classified as a yellow star. Other genocides classify their groups by giving them ID cards, color of their skin, and color of their clothes. They say that a genocide cannot progress unless there is a very clear way to tell the groups