What conditions are necessary for a genocide to occur? Armenian genocide took place in 1915 during the World War One, forcing hundreds of thousands of Armenians to leave their houses. Factors that most contributed to the outbreak of the Armenian Genocide included nationalism, economic jealousy, and the desire of Turks to create a new homogeneous Turkish state without christians. During that time, most of the Armenian population lived on the Turkish territory which made it even easier for Turks to commit violence. They were responsible for horrific actions such as torture, rape, destruction of property and death, affecting nearly two millions of Armenian lives.
World War One has contributed the most to the start of the genocide. Turkey at that
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We can almost compare this group to the Nazi to get an idea about Young Turks’ beliefs and ideas on how they wanted to create a new state without Armenians and other ethnic groups of people. Since the Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire for a long time before the massacres, they were able to build many churches and other constructions that represented their culture. However, after the deportation of Armenians, Young Turks and their followers destroyed all the remaining Armenian building and monument, and also renamed rivers, towns with everything to get rid of Armenian presence. Another way in which the genocide was carried out is the forced conversion to Islam of women and children. Most of the Armenians, of course, did not want to convert so that they and their children don’t lose their Armenians identity. Armenian women that had young children usually had to choose if they want their child away to convert to Islam and survive losing Armenian identity or be tortured and raped otherwise. Turks also kidnapped Armenian children and gave them to Turkish families, they forced women to join Turkish “harems” to serve there as slaves. Those who refused to do it were drowned in rivers, crucified, or just
They invaded the city over and over again taking the young children and turning them into slaves and humiliating them in front of the entire city. They wanted to get rid of Christianity completely in a short amount of time. The turks felt victorious every time that they captured a new group. This shows how this time period was at a constant war. There was never peace among cities.
The 19th century set the stage for different policies that lead to the extending of America’s power, which is defined as imperialism. Imperialism started for different reasons like the Americans wanting the U.S. to expand or explore the unknown land, or even some feared existing resources in U.S. might eventually dry up. The reason imperialism started doesn’t really matter, but more of what it caused. Imperialism lead to Cuban assistance, the addition of Hawaii and Alaska to America, and Yellow Journalism.
Millions on millions were killed and even more were harmed, starved, and worked to near death. Eventually an international effort was created, a war against Germany, The Nazis, and the Axis powers. They were stopped, but only after millions had already been killed. On the other hand, an estimated two million Armenians were killed in the Ottoman empire. At least a million others were deported. After the Central Powers were defeated, the genocide ended because the perpetrators no longer had power. In most cases, these situations are ended by other countries uniting together to end these
They also lived peacefully because of their less-populated population. In 1914, Turks entered the World War I by being on the side of Germany and also the Austria-Hungary Empire. At the same time Armenia was helping Russia to fight with the Turks. Because of this war, Turks tried to remove Armenians from the Ottoman Empire. On April 24, 1915, the Armenian genocide began.
During this genocide, “Turkey was in control and fighting against Russia. Fearing that the Armenians might aid the enemy, hundreds of thousands of helpless people were driven into the Arabian desert to die of heat and starvation” (Aspaturian 21). Religion was the main reason people were attacking each other. Some people were forced to assimilation or convert to Islam and adopt Turkish names in order to survive (1915 Genocide). The main goal of the genocide was to create a homogenous turkish state (1915 Genocide).
The taking of possessions and killings relate to another similarity between the two genocides. The Armenian Genocide was during World War 1 and the Holocaust during World War 2 (“Armenian” History.com). The fact the Arme... ... middle of paper ... ... their own opinion allowing all of us to live in a more peaceful world.
Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: "Armenians in Ottoman Turkey and the Armenian Genocide. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005. (Accessed March 20, 2014).
When the word ‘genocide’ is mentioned, the Holocaust is almost always the first one to come to mind. It was one of the most horrible and inhumane events of mankind, but it wasn’t the deadliest or even most brutal genocide. While approximately six million Jews were murdered, an even more death-dealing incident took place forty-years earlier in what is now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In a span of twenty-five gruesome years, over ten-million Congolese were slaughtered and mutilated ("Congo Free State, 1885-1908"). In fact, the genocide is considered one of the worst in history because of the number of people massacred. Although this genocide is not as well known as more infamous ones such as the Holocaust, the Belgian-Congo genocide is still considered one of the deadliest.
One genocide that takes a back seat to the holocaust is the Spanish civil war. Starting July 17th, 1936, and ending 3 years later, Francisco Franco seized power and gruesomely murdered hundred of thousands. The holocaust
“The problem is, once you start talking it’s very difficult to stop. It’s almost impossible to stop” (Kidder,160). If the world commenced the discussion about the worlds’ genocides and we made our stances clear on them, just maybe would have a better system to deal with them before the mass killings gets too far. Genocides encompass many different effects in the afflicted country and later throughout the world by creating refugee camps, the need for world aid, and disasters in the country afterwards.
Spain’s decline was brought on due to lack of productivity, growth, and poor leadership. Spain emerged quickly only to spare power to the Ottoman Empire. The gratitude of the Ottoman’s accepts all people to expand their population, and showed heroism gathering all followers to their renewed way of life. Children trained as early as age of six for education to advance modern technology. The Ottomans used all available resources to bring about knowledge for advancement, and with the new followers they could advance knowledge and teachings and grow productively.
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The humanitarian response to the internal displacement situation in Ukraine is a coordinated effort by multiple organizations. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) works together with ten operational partners providing support to refugees through protection and legal assistance, policy development and capacity building, distribution of emergency shelter materials and non-food items (Ukraine: UNHCR). Despite the humanitarian response to the internal displacement situation in Ukraine as a coordinated effort by government, international organizations, and national and international NGOs working in partnership, civil casualties are still high and major concerns also include very rigid winters, shelling