The Armenian Genocide

The U.N or the United Nations was created after World War II to prevent future world wars and to establish an international organization that advocated peace through negotiation rather than military force.The United Nations is responsible for keeping world peace and providing safety for all peoples. In 1948, after World War II had finally come to an end, the U.N. had issued the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which consisted of thirty articles that served to protect the people politically, socially and economically. These articles were formed as a result of many atrocities of war in an attempt to ensure that such loss, chaos and disorder would never occur again. Had it been in existence, the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide and the genocide

The Armenians under the Muslim Empire were unhappy and were mistreated. Although the Armenians were allowed to practice their faith freely, they had few to none legal and political rights. Despite the injustice the Armenians endured, they still were very prosperous and wealthy causing the Turkish to detest the Armenians more. Many Turks had even begun to raise suspicions on Armenian loyalty that had ultimately led to the mass murder of Armenians. During World War I, the Ottoman Empire fought alongside Austria-Germany against the Allied Powers. The military leaders were convinced that the Armenians were traitors and would shift their loyalty to Russia, a Christian nation. On April 24,1915, the Armenian Genocide had finally begun after the Turkish government arrested Armenian intellectuals and had later been killed. Many Armenians were forced out of there homes and had to walk on death marches through the desert without food and water.(“The Armenian Genocide”) “Frequently, the marchers were stripped naked and forced to walk under the scorching sun until they dropped dead. People who stopped to rest were shot. People who stopped to rest were shot.”(“The Armenian Genocide”)The Young Turks, a group of reformers had created groups that consisted of murders and other criminals.(“The Armenian Genocide”) “They drowned people in rivers, threw them off cliffs, crucified them and burned them alive. In short order, the Turkish countryside was littered with Armenian corpses.”(The Armenian Genocide”) During this period of chaos and terror, women were raped and forced to be sex slaves, children were kidnapped and many were forced to convert to Islam. The genocide had finally come to an end in 1922 and by then, more than a million people had perished because of it. (“The Armenian