The Armenian people were tortured, starved, massacred. The majority were sent to the desert to die. Oddly enough, the Holocaust also promoted deaths likewise to the Armenian Genocide. First off, Germans don't deny nor hide the fact that the Holocaust ever occurred, unlike the the Turkish government who made it illegal to mention the fact that it was indeed a Genocide. The two events and oppressors had different views on how to advertise that each race is the enemy. Lastly, both events differed when looking at ways to execute each event. (thesis: The first difference between the two is that unlike the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide is said to not have happened by Turkish descendants, while Armenians claim and bring evidence forward that it
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First off, the Armenian Genocide was a prejudiced and unjust event. The Armenians, a part of the then Ottoman Empire, were mistreated and subjected to brutal attacks to their home lives and person. On April 24, 1915, The Ottoman government arrested and executed several hundred intellectual Armenians. After that, ordinary Armenians were pushed out of their homes and sent on marches through the Mesopotamian desert without food or water. The Armenians sometimes were forced to unclothe and walk bare in the scorching weather, while the ones who stopped and rested were killed. Today, it is outlawed in Turkey to even mention the Genocide. Article 301 of the penal code states “(1) Public denigration of Turkishness, the Republic or the Grand National Assembly of Turkey shall be punishable by imprisonment of between six months and up to three years. (2) Public denigration of the Government of the Turkish Republic, the judicial institutions, military or security organisations of the state shall be punishable by imprisonment of between six months up to two years. (3) If denigration of Turkishness is committed by a Turkish citizen in another country, the punishment shall be …show more content…
After, there were fewer than 400,000. The others were killed in what historians considered a genocide. Armenians marked the date April 24, 1915, when the killings first began. The Young Turks sought to rid Turkey of the Armenian population, which resulted in much of the Armenian population being exiled from large parts of Western Armenia and forced to march the Syrian desert. “About 1.2 million Armenians - some estimates put the number at 1.5 million - died from armed conflict, massacres, and deportations that started in 1915, according to experts. “There were executions into mass graves, and death marches of men, women and children across the Syrian desert concentration camps with many dying along the way of exhaustion and starvation.” (Kifner, 2014) Where some of the murders were calculated and systematic, this particular event- the Armenian Death March- wasn't. They forced people to walk until they fell dead due to starvation and heat exhaustion. No one had a specific agenda as to how they would suffer and die. People were stripped naked and forced to keep walking. Some were killed from predators, and some died simply because they just couldn't handle it. They were sentenced to walking, and weren't allowed to ever stop, under guise of being shot if they tried. Unlike the Holocaust, this event was mostly calculated and never had moments were bloodshed was the only
First off, the Armenian Genocide was a prejudiced and unjust event. The Armenians, a part of the then Ottoman Empire, were mistreated and subjected to brutal attacks to their home lives and person. On April 24, 1915, The Ottoman government arrested and executed several hundred intellectual Armenians. After that, ordinary Armenians were pushed out of their homes and sent on marches through the Mesopotamian desert without food or water. The Armenians sometimes were forced to unclothe and walk bare in the scorching weather, while the ones who stopped and rested were killed. Today, it is outlawed in Turkey to even mention the Genocide. Article 301 of the penal code states “(1) Public denigration of Turkishness, the Republic or the Grand National Assembly of Turkey shall be punishable by imprisonment of between six months and up to three years. (2) Public denigration of the Government of the Turkish Republic, the judicial institutions, military or security organisations of the state shall be punishable by imprisonment of between six months up to two years. (3) If denigration of Turkishness is committed by a Turkish citizen in another country, the punishment shall be …show more content…
After, there were fewer than 400,000. The others were killed in what historians considered a genocide. Armenians marked the date April 24, 1915, when the killings first began. The Young Turks sought to rid Turkey of the Armenian population, which resulted in much of the Armenian population being exiled from large parts of Western Armenia and forced to march the Syrian desert. “About 1.2 million Armenians - some estimates put the number at 1.5 million - died from armed conflict, massacres, and deportations that started in 1915, according to experts. “There were executions into mass graves, and death marches of men, women and children across the Syrian desert concentration camps with many dying along the way of exhaustion and starvation.” (Kifner, 2014) Where some of the murders were calculated and systematic, this particular event- the Armenian Death March- wasn't. They forced people to walk until they fell dead due to starvation and heat exhaustion. No one had a specific agenda as to how they would suffer and die. People were stripped naked and forced to keep walking. Some were killed from predators, and some died simply because they just couldn't handle it. They were sentenced to walking, and weren't allowed to ever stop, under guise of being shot if they tried. Unlike the Holocaust, this event was mostly calculated and never had moments were bloodshed was the only