Compare And Contrast Hovanness Toumanian Genocide And Western Armenia

History is a phenomenon that has the propensity to repeat itself. Genocides have been committed throughout history, even before the term was assembled in 1944 and accepted by the United Nations in 1946 as a crime under international law. According to the United Nations, genocide is defined as “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” A minimum of twenty-seven genocides have been documented across the world. During the 20th century, the Armenian Genocide and the Ukrainian genocide (Holodomor) transpired. Currently, in the 21st century, the world is witnessing another brutal genocide occurring in Myanmar. A kindred pattern of events is perceived throughout the duration of genocides along with

In a letter to Cleveland Hoadley Dodge on May 11th, 1918 the 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt in less than a year before his death made a prophetic prediction: "... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war (WWI), and failure to act against Turkey is to condone it; because the failure to deal radically with Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense". The prediction was right.

were killed during the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. That is more than half the number of people that died in World War I. The book Maus by Art Spigelman tells the story of a man who was a victim of and lived through the Holocaust. The Holocaust and Amenian Genocide are indistinguishable because of not only the amount of people that died but also for three more main reasons. These reasons are the gruesome leaders of both genocides, the merciless dehumanization that was forced upon the Armenians, Jews, and Lebanese, and the unreasonable murder tactics. ! First of all, there were many people that were part of the extermination of

What is a genocide? A genocide is when one ethnic, racial, or religious group tries to destroy and eliminate another. This extermination is usually done through cruel and brutal methods. It is our responsibility to learn about the genocides to help prevent them from occurring in the future. Genocides have been occurring for centuries and, unfortunately, still take place today. We are going to focus on two particular genocides: the Jewish genocide (more commonly know as the Holocaust) and the Armenian genocide.

According to Google, a genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The Holocaust and Armenian Genocide are both considered genocides. Both of these genocides compare in many ways. They both had a belief that a race was superior to another race and they were both starved. They are also different in many ways.

The barbaric acts of witch hunts can be found all through history. A witch hunt is a campaign against a person or a group of people who hold unorthodox views. The two most notable witchhunts of religion are the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust. During the Armenian Genocide, the Turks waged a war against the Christian Armenians. With the Holocaust, it was Hitler and his Nazis against the Jews. The cause of these two witch hunts can be boiled down into one category, and that is hatred of another group, because of their beliefs.

The Armenian Genocide also referred as the Armenian Holocaust was a horrific act done by the Turkish Ottoman government to exterminate and kill many Armenians. Millions of Armenians lost their lives due to this event and Turkey refutes that any event ever happened or occurred. The start of the genocide took place in April 24 1915 where the ottoman empire took many Armenian leaders to eventually murder them. The event was carried out during and after World War 1. The genocide was implemented in two phases which where the wholesale killing of the male population, then the death marches of the children and women leading to starvation because their food and water were deprived as well as their dignity since they raped and robbed them. There were

To put the names “Armenia” and “Turkey” together evokes a wave of grief and anger. Over the years, a very few have challenged the two and strived to bridge the gap between Armenians and Turks. Dink “crossed that bridge to become a symbol of the struggle for human and minority rights, and of the struggle for democracy and European integration” (Cheterian, 16). Hrant Dink was one of whom who challenged the perceptions of the relationship between Armenians and Turks, starting with his discovery of the newspaper Agos, founded in 1996. The newspaper, which was written and published in both Armenian and Turkish, confronted topics about the complexities that existed between both countries over the years and advocated human rights and democratization.

Hadji Murat, Tolstoy's second book with the Caucasus as its setting can be considered a work of historical fiction that is a beautiful tale of resistance, and a window into not only the Caucasian War of the mid-nineteenth century, but also the culture of the Russian Empire during this period. As a work of fiction the reader must be wary of depictions of actual persons such as Tsar Nicholas I, whom Tolstoy was not enamored with, to say the least, but many insights about the period and its people can be gleaned from the story. The novel is one of great contrasts between Chechens and Russians and also of what life was like during this time.

Yagiz Akiska Mrs. Lewis World Literature-3rd Period October 16th 2014 Somehow Connected Armenia went through such bad times in 1915 and lost many of people in the Turkish massacre; people died and their families were divided. “The Armenian Language is the home of the Armenian” is a poem that was written after that time by Moushegh Ishkan (1913-1990), who was just a little child while encountering such sad times. The author mentions his deep feelings about his heritage, despite the tragic times Armenians faced, and throughout the poem he reveals his comfort, love, and pride of the Armenian language using some literary devices such as an extended metaphor and a connotative word.

To this day, the subject of the Armenian Genocide is controversial, splitting nations as well as researchers over the true nature of what happened and for what reasons. This research paper aims to examine the origins of the Armenian Genocide and what factors led to its conception. I utilize a number of primary sources in this research, including archival material from the Armenian National Institute that includes sources from both American and United Kingdoms governments. In addition, I also examine the accounts from those who witnessed the genocide first hand, an example being the memoir of Grigoris Balakian, an Armenian bishop who personally witnessed the persecution of his people. Through these works as well as several other secondary sources, I find evidence to support my argument that the Armenian Genocide was a pre-planned attack with the intention of exterminating the Armenian Christians. Therefore, despite the contention over its nature, the surrounding evidence and testimonies that have come forth help in making the argument that the Armenian massacres were a pre-conceived plan carried out by the Ottoman government and serves as the first true genocide to take place in the twentieth century.

The trials and tribulations of the Armenian people have been an omnipresent facet of the world’s political stage for hundreds of years. Like many groups during the rise and fall of empires, these Caucasus natives were juggled into the hands of many civilizations as power was exchanged in Eurasia in the first millennium (Armenian Genocide). In 1514, Armenia – located between the Black and Caspian seas – was annexed into the Ottoman Empire, and because the caliphs of this superpower were practicing Muslims, the Christian Armenian minority was forced to pay higher taxes and had few political rights (Armenian Genocide). Resentment against Armenians quickly grew as a result of their success as educated, wealthy entrepreneurs and merchants, whose their quality of life was distinctly better than that of their lowly Turkish neighbors, the majority of

The Armenian genocide has several main causes: European meddling in Ottoman internal affairs, nationalism, economic jealousy, and Armenian involvement in the Russian war effort. Though, a lot of the causes are interrelated. For example, nationalism and European meddling go hand in hand. What exactly was the Armenian genocide? Well, the Armenian genocide was a state orchestrated machine of mass-murder and rape of the Armenian people, and several other ethnic groups, of the Ottoman Empire 1915-1923. The Armenians were one of many ethnic groups of the Ottoman Empire, and they had lived in eastern Asia Minor for around three thousand years prior to the atrocity .

The Cambodian Genocide and the Armenian Genocide have similar methods of how the victims were killed. They similarly murdered their victims, starved their victims and targeted government officials. They were different in that the Armenians were deported but the Khmer Rouge targeted Cambodians based of their class and had re-education camps.

There has been doubt that Raffi wanted to be a movement leader; however, Raffi’s detailed and rich works, specifically “Samuel” and “the fool”, made me feel that he considered becoming a movement leader because he was clearly drawing an outline for the ideology of future Armenia. Raffi, according to About Murad Meneshian, inspired many of the founders of the political parties such as ARF’s Krisdapor Mekalian; nevertheless, Raffi was not a member of any of the growing political parties of Western Armenia. On the other hand, Meneshian believes there is evidence that Raffi cooperated with Pashpan Hayreniats, a society the purpose of which was arming the inhabitants for defense against any future attacks by Turks, Kurds, and Circassians. It is also believed that the society’s emblem and oath “Azatutiun Gam Mah” (Liberty or Death) was created by Raffi and Arstruni. In short, it is unclear that Raffi was a leader of a movement, but there is no doubt that Raffi was a reason and motivator to the awaking of the patriotic soul of many Armenians citizens and