The Armenian Genocide

The Armenian massacres of the 1890 's are an important marker in the history of humanitarian aid by the United States. Before this point, American humanitarian aid had been up to small committee efforts thrown together for an individual international crisis. During the 1890 's humanitarian reformers became more organized and elected officials began to look at the role the United States federal government could play in international humanitarian aid. (Wilson 27) At this time Protestant missionaries and Armenian nationals joined forces with former abolitionists, woman suffragists, and newspapermen to bring the condition of the Armenians to the attention of the citizens of the United States.

The Armenian genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire against its minority Armenian population from 1915-1917 left an estimated 1.5 million dead and to date, not one individual has been tried for these egregious crimes. The mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in World War I and Jews by the Nazis in World War II shocked the conscience of the international community and led to the creation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), in order to hold the perpetrators of crimes of this magnitude accountable. In its preamble, the UN charter sets the objective to "establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained". The genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire and Nazis made it clear that an international standard must be set in order to protect the rights of individuals. The UN has attempted to establish international law with the creation of the CPPCG and other resolutions, however, these resolutions are simply words on paper unless they are properly enforced. In this essay I will be examining whether the United Nations have been successful in its enforcement international law, specifically the CPPCG.

The Armenian Genocide was a very bad thing during a very bad time. One of the main causes of the genocide was the intolerance of a tyrannical regime. During this time it caused a lot of different problems for the armenians. During this time there were about 1.5 million Armenians living in the empire in 1915 and almost 1.2 million people died during the genocide. This event caused a lot more things to go on in the future because of how bad it really was.

The Jewish Holocaust is well known throughout the world and is taught to all students. But who talks of the Armenians? Who talks of the innocent people being forced by the Turks to leave their 3,000 year-old homeland and march without stopping to the Syrian Desert (Bournoutian

The Armenian genocide has its place in history as one of the first large-scale genocides of the 20th century. Technological advancements of the period allowed for the efficient killing of large amounts of people, making genocide possible. Automatic weapons made it easy to commit mass killings, and advances in communication allowed for much easier coordination of these killings. The era was characterized by an obsession with race and nationalism, and these topics dominated world politics (Kaplan, 2016, p. 41). This was an environment plagued by racism and xenophobia, which helped to facilitate the Armenian genocide.

Elie Wiesel is quoted saying “Denial is the final phase of genocide, a second killing.” This can be seen when on April 24th, 1915, a group of Armenians were forcibly removed from their homes, and unknown to them, marched to their death. This would begin the period known to many as the Armenian Genocide. However, many still refuse to acknowledge the killings that took place. The mass genocide of Armenians is still a taboo subject in Turkey, almost 100 years after two million citizens lost their lives.

The Armenian genocide was the first genocide of Modern World History, but it was not the first time the world saw an ethnic and religious group angry with and persecuting another. The Armenian genocide is special because it was the first time the world saw mass slaughter being planned and executed by government officials. This deliberate slaughter of Armenians has been the focus of many because of its unique persecution of a single ethnic group and the fact that the Turkish government still denies its existence. Although the Armenian genocide took place in the Middle East, it has impacted the entire world. The Armenian genocide happened during World War I. Most known genocides have happened during times of war, because most of the world or

To begin with, the aggressors of the Armenia genocide were the Turks. The Turks were the aggressors because they purposely went after the Armenian men and killed them in a violent way. Then in a very short amount of time took all Armenian women, children and Elderly on a deadly march. The targeted groups from the Armenian genocide were Christians. The Turks targeted the Armenians because they were the first Christian nation and the Turks were all

People have studied the Armenian Genocide and have discovered its history and origins. The genocide started with the Ottoman Empire taking control of Armenia in the 16th century. The Ottoman Empire governed using Islamic law, making the Armenians second class citizens. They were also forced to pay more/higher taxes and faced discrimination. Even with these challenges, the Armenians were successful under Ottoman rule. The success of the Armenians also caused resentment and suspicion of where their obedience would lay, either

The Armenian Genocide was genocide in Armenia that last from April 24, 1915 until 1922. By the end of the genocide about 1.5 million Armenians were either deported or massacred in the Ottoman Empire. The methods of execution were varied and they were brutal also. Some of them include crucifixion, hanging, and marches. These marches would usually consist of those victims being forced to walk through the desert and they would usually die of starvation and dehydration. Officials would torment young children and tease them with food by eating it in front of them.

The Armenian genocide is paid tribute to on April 24 each year, and it occurred during the years of WWI between 1915 and

Jayden: Starting in 1915, the Turkish government stimulated a plan to exterminate Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. Most sources agree that there were around 2 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the time of the massacre. By the early 1920s, when the manslaughter and deportations finally ended, 1.5 million of Turkey’s Armenians were deceased, with many more forcefully removed from their homeland in the Ottoman Empire.The genocide left the Armenian community in a wreckage , and present-day Armenia is only a fragment of the size of Armenia before the disastrous massacre committed by the Ottoman Empire.

On April 24, 1915, the genocide began. The Turkish military invaded the empire, arrested, and executed every Armenian citizen they saw. After that, the

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 Armenian genocide sometimes called the first genocide of the twentieth century, refers to the physical annihilation of Armenian Christian people living in the Ottoman Empire from spring 1915 through autumn 1916. There were approximately 1.5 million Armenians living in the multiethnic Ottoman Empire in 1915. At least 664,000 and possibly as many as 1.2 million died during the genocide, either in massacres and individual killings, or from systematic ill treatment, exposure, and starvation. In 1915, leaders of the Turkish government set in motion a plan to expel and massacre Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. Though reports vary, most sources agree that there were about 2 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the time of the massacre. By the early 1920s, when the massacres and deportations finally ended, some 1.5 million of Turkey’s Armenians were dead, with many more forcibly removed from the country. Today, most historians call this event a genocide–a premeditated and systematic campaign to exterminate an entire people. However, the Turkish government does not acknowledge the enormity or scope of these events. Despite pressure from Armenians and social justice advocates throughout the world, it is still illegal in Turkey to talk about what happened to Armenians during this era. The victims of the Armenian genocide include people killed in local massacres that began in spring 1915; others who died during deportations, under conditions of starvation, dehydration,