What is Genocide

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What is Genocide?

• refers to the deliberate and systematic
  destruction of a group of people
• Holocaust
• Armenian Genocide
• Rwandan Genocide
• Darfur crisis

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Characteristics of Genocide

• Mass killings/large groups
• Rape common
• Hunger
• Have some reason that covers up hate or racism

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Armenian Genocide

• April 24, 1915
• Reports of 1-1.5 million Armenians killed by
  Ottoman Turks
• All age groups including children
• Second most studied case after Holocaust
• Armenians forced to flee all over the world and
  build communities

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Why Armenians?

• Targeted because they were Christians
• Second Class Citizens
• During WWI feared that they would side with
  Russia part of Allied powers
• Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire as a
  threat to the empire's security

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Events

• April 1915 Gathered and Killed 250 leaders
• May 1915 Law that said they could deport anyone
  they thought was a traitor on into desert
• Began taking goods of Armenians that were
  deported
• 25 concentration camps, many died on the way

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Memorial in Armenia
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Controversy Today

• Turkey and many other allies will not admit
  genocide
• Said not genocide act of war- against traitors,
  many died starvation
• 21 countries agree that it was a genocide
• 42 U.S. States
• Most historians agree genocide took place
• Documented evidence of state supported massacres