Armenian Genocide

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    Let us consider , another problem is the between the European Union and Turkey are Armenian genocide. Some European Union countries have accepted that Turkey people have made a genocide for example, Germany, France,Netherland and Italy but what is interesting is the fact that the French and German allegedly kill the thousands of Jews who are known to everybody and the fact that the French made them in Algeria, in this case, they are reacting in some cases because of the double standards…

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    What happened during the Armenian genocide still today affects those who survived that horrific experience and even the family members of those victims who didn’t make it through and of those who did survive the genocide. The reason for the genocide was that the Ottomans believed that the Armenians were a problem in Turkey ands they needed to get rid of them in order to save Turkey and also because they were non-Muslim and believed them to be second-level and this is what led to the mass murder…

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    Karnig Panian’s “Goodbye Antoura” is a memoir of the Armenian Genocide that took place during the period of World War One. Panian reflects on his heartbreaking and shocking struggles he had to endure throughout the genocide. Being only five at the time of the deportation he was forced to be introduced to the loss of family, exhaustion, and severe starvation. The genocide was planned and administered by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian citizens of this mainly Turkish state from the year…

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    The Armenian Genocide is acknowledged by most scholars as one of the first genocides of the modern era. The events that unfolded in the Ottoman Empire during World War I killed an estimated 1.5 million Armenians. These events were an extension of a persecution that extended from the 1500s and was an accumulation of massacres that started in the 1890s.The deaths also extended to the mass killings of Assyrians and Greeks whom resided in the Ottoman Empire. Despite these atrocities, the Ottoman…

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    The Armenian Genocide

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    The Armenian Genocide, started on April 24, 1915 and lasted until 1918. It was known as the first genocide of the modern world and contributes to the understanding of the nature of violence in modern history. To understand the nature of violence in this genocide, there must be a clear interpretation of the meaning. The World Health Organisation defines violence as ‘the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or…

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    The Armenian Genocide

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    The Armenian Genocide was very similar to other cases of human rights violations because factors such as scapegoating were followed by dehumanization. From the beginning during the Ottoman Empire, Christians were discriminated against as they paid higher taxes than Muslims. During World War I, Armenians were scapegoated because of their Christian beliefs, which supposedly influenced their loyalty to their country. Similarly, in the Holocaust, Hitler blamed the Jews for all the economic problems…

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    The Armenian people and the Jewish people were both involved in a genocide based on prejudice, with the intent to completely wipe out their race. The Nazi’s and The Turkish people were responsible for the Genocide of these two groups. The Nazis carried out one of the most notorious crimes in history, The Holocaust. They killed countless minorities but specifically targeted the Jewish. During World War 1, The Ottoman Empire was having a lot of turmoil between the two main ethnicities in the…

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    The Forgotten Genocide

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    occurred during World War I. This event is known as “The Forgotten Genocide”, and it took place within the Ottoman Empire. It is estimated that during the early 20th Century, over 1.5 million Christian Armenians in that region lost their lives, and consequently, their land at the hands of the Ottoman and Turkish governments. Welcome to the Armenian Genocide. The very beginnings of the Armenian Genocide took place in a country where the Armenian minority had less social…

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    of the genocide because “integral part of German military strategy at the outset of the conflict was to mobilize some of the different national and religious groupings against the Entente by sponsorship of nationalist revolt and jihad” (Bloxham 2005, 119). Mobilization of different nationals would potential support Germany during the World War I, hence Germans wanted the conflict of Armenian to spread because it allowed Germans to used it to their benefit. German contributed to the genocide…

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    weren’t as lucky. Genocide is the systematic elimination of a group of people based of some quality that they share. The holocaust is a more well known example of this act which causes more damage than you’d imagine. Genocide has lethal effects on a culture,primarily the victims and perpetrators.There have been documented accounts of the steps that lead to a genocide.This is why we need to educate people in genocide prevention to fight against mass murder. The act of Genocide is much more…

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