Ethnic cleansing

As citizen’s of a modern society, it is our responsibility to acknowledge the disturbing actions of our past, avoiding ignorance in order to preserve peace and prevent future loss of life, therefore, it is crucial that the Armenian Genocide should be recognized by everyone as premeditated genocide. In the shadow of World War I, one of the world’s first systematic genocides transpired within the Ottoman Empire. From 1908 to 1922 the Turkish government arrested, executed, and deported over 1.5…

The Armenian Genocide is the forgotten genocide. Known to be the fourth largest genocide ever, an estimated 1,500,000 Armenians were killed, and yet the average person has never heard of it. Forgotten Fire is a fictional book by Adam Bagdasarian about the Armenian Genocide. In this book Vahan, the main character, is an Armenian. Vahan is a privileged boy and the son of a well known, well respected man. Vahan is used to comfort, wealth, and security, until the start of the genocide. When…

The holocaust is considered a travesty by all who have heard the tales of many who survived the event, sadly 12 million 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…

“It was not war. It was most certainly massacre and genocide, something the world must remember” (Beilin). Beginning in 1915, the Turkish government created a plan to massacre Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire (History.com Staff). Armenians were taken from homes, arrested, and executed. Those who survived were forced to go on death marches through the Mesopotamian desert without desired resources. Armenians were abused both mentally and physically, causing thousands to die in only the first…

The Armenians were treated very poorly, killed in many different ways and the Turkification had begun. The Turkish government had declared war on the Ottoman Empire. Armenians were arrested and sent on death marches out into the Mesopotamian desert with no food or water during World War I. The Turkification campaign had begun. They consisted of government squads of the Turkish. Their job was to kidnap Armenian children and convert them into Islam. Once that is complete they gave them to Turkish…

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 Ottoman empire was replaced by the republic of turkey, who committed genocide on the ottomans, and eliminated over a million of the population which consisted of two million in 1915. The Ottoman empire ceased to exist in 1925 but the population was completely eliminated in 1923. The now Turkish republic encountered a lot of Armenian population who were a minority because they consisted Christian and the turks were an islamic based people with a hate for the Armenians. The victims were…

Ottoman rule. During World War One, the Armenian people became a threat to the Turkish Government provoking a extermination of a the people.A genocide is defined by the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The Armenian…

The horrible events that took place during the Holocaust are hard to match. Some may say that it is the worst genocide in human history. But there is one thing that we can all agree on: the Holocaust definitely wasn 't the first genocide. Similar techniques and prejudices can be found in history before the Holocaust. These can be found most notably in the Armenian Genocide. The intentions, methods, and denial of both Genocides are very similar. The Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide are both…

Is there truly justice for Genocide? Throughout the course of history, many brutal atrocities have been committed, on a genocidal scale. Some of these have resulted in court cases and punishments for the perpetrators, though many have not. Reparations, even enormous ones, do not repay the families of the murdered. This can be exemplified with the genocide of the Poles in the Katyn Woods, and the Armenian Genocide. One happened in the midst of World War II, and has been largely ignored by the…