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- Armenia had been a state for many years until it was absorbed into the the Ottomen Empire
- The Ottomans and the Armenians had lived together for centuries
- Armenians were perceived to be a lower class and were held to higher taxes and more hardships
- When the Ottoman Empire was on the decline countries began to declare their Independence from the Empire
- The Armenians instead for declaring independence from the Empire like the Greeks, Serbs, and Romans did, they asked for Constitutional rights and political reform
- When the Ottoman Empire became the "Sick Man of Europe" 6 things began to happen
- The Turks shifted the blame of the famine and decline of economy as well as the decline of the over all empire to the Armenian people
- Armenians who were once isolated people began to read great European books on nationalism
- Nationalism began to spread to the Armenian people
- European powers began to push for the equal treatment of Armenians, but this only induced the opposite effect
- There had been previous mass killings of Armenians in 1984, 1895, 1896, and 1909 and the Armenians had asked for retribution from the Ottomen government
- Armenians asked for an end to hightend taxes on Christians, the right to vote and hold public office
- Ottomans in response to the rise in nationalism limited the Armenians even more
- This caused the Armenians to become violent with their valiant protests
- The Ottomans used this as a reason to imprison and execute Armenian leaders most of whom were innocent
- This caused the Armenian effort to go underground, but being from the lower financial classes, it was hard to get their effort out on an international level
- World War 1 gave the Ottomans the cover they needed
- On April 24th 1915 Armenian leaders were summoned to a gathering where they were publicly massacred
- In 1896 the Ottoman Turkish government slaughtered an estimated 30,000 Armenians because a handful of Armenians had committed an act of terrorism
- Massacres were conducted to leaders all over the country with the exception of Constantinople because of foreign occupation
- The government had almost complete cooperation from the Armenians who were left leaderless and being largely of the peasant class and bourgeoisie left with out money
- The ottomans promised to "relocate them for there own good" but instead most people were sent off to refugee camps where they were killed
- Men where sent to the war to fight (mostly at odds that would insure their deaths) and women and children would be shot and killed in transport to the refugee camps
- Those that did survive were sent out of the country most to the United States and other World Powers
- Despite the slaughters Armenian nationalism grew stronger
- One of the goals of the Ottomans was to eradicate all Armenian culture, but it imposed the opposite effect, it caused the Armenians to be proud of their culture and see it as something to fight for
- Ottomen soldiers went city to city and slaughtered anyone who stood in there way
- Sadly very few faced any punishment since they were only "defeating a rebellion"
A depiction of deportation centers, Armenian resistance, and the general massacre.
- There were further intermittent pogroms of Armenians in the following 15 years or so
- In April 1915 the Ottoman Turkish government embarked on genocide against the Armenians. Thousands of Armenians were massacred, and the rest sent on long marches from Anantolia (roughly modern Turkey) into the desert in Syria, then under Ottoman control
- During the march, the Armenians were given very little to eat or drink
- On arrival in the desert they were herded into camps
- An estimated 1.2 million Armenians perished or were murdered at the camps alone
- The genocide took place during World War 1 when the Ottoman Empire was an ally of German and Austria-Hungary, and largely inaccessible
- The reason given for the action was that a few hundred Armenian soldiers had left to the Russian Empire
- There were plenty of German and American witnesses to the the slaughter of the Armenians
- Due to the Terriable events US and other World Powers set up a state for the Armenian people
- Armenia has huge spheres of influence that controls all that it does as "repayment" for the "help" they received during the mass killings
- Today Armenia has trouble with famine and depends on foreign aid
- Armenia was left in ruine utill taken into the Soviet Union
- Many of the countires condemned the Armenian Genocide, some of the other countires such as Germany, Russia, Great Britain, France, and the United States were hoping that the Genocide would stop on its own, but were wrong
- A few years later, these countries took action and forced the Ottoman Empire to prosecute the Young Turks.
- Turks were held personally responsible for all the acts committed in the Armenian Genocide
- The countires who were against the Armenian people, were required to set up relief funds for the Armenian people
- No harsh actions were actually taken against the Ottoman Empire for the Genocide, but the Turkish Government are required to make restitution for the immense slaughter of their people
- Armenian Genocide is still not consider by the US government as being genocide instead it is refereed to as police killing
- Turkey's foreign minister warned the U.S. Congress that passing a resolution condemning the early 20th century killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians as genocide would harm relations with his country
- The Turkish government was paying congressmen 100 thousand dollars a month to kill the bill to acknowledge Armenian Genocide in committee
- The Turkish are powerful trade allies of the US so it has not been declared genocide by US government
- Some state that it was a civil war and the Armenians were trying to take control of the government
- If things this horrific happend how come there is little proof
- Disease and famine were sweeping across the country and the deaths were mostly likely due to these factors
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Young Turks Take Power
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Armenian People Make Their First Successful Stand
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Ottomens Expelled Armenians Given Land
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1893
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1915
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1918
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1894
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1916
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1921
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First Killings 100,000 Dead
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America Offers First Support
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The independent Armenian Republic anexed by the Soviet Union
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Comments (2)
jesser said
at 7:45 pm on Apr 23, 2009
A song Greg? A SONG?
jesser said
at 8:28 pm on Apr 23, 2009
Get on your chat room greg.
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