- Started by the Ottoman Empire during World War I around the 20th Century.
- Exterminated one-half to two-thirds of the Armenians living along the outside of the empire.
- Many who survived were forced into severe hunger and thrist in the middle of summer.
-Many Eyewitness reports a lot of physical mutilations, massacres of women, children, and newborn babies.
- This genocide is the only instance in which no reparation have been paid and which has never been granted any formal recognition.
- The Allied forces began evidence gathering and trying the guilty.
- The Allied forces let out a statement against the young turks.
"In view of these new crimes of Turkey against humanity and civilization, the Allied governments announce publicly … that they will hold personally responsible [for] these crimes all members of the … government and those of their agents who are implicated in such massacres."
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- Database- World History in Context
Your post made me want to learn more about how people who survived the genocide were still tortured. This interested me because its interesting to get others point of views (like the sufferers) about genocide.
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