The Armenian Genide And The Tragedy Of The Armenian Genocide

Tragedy of the Armenian Genocide

An American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Henry Morgenthau once stated, “I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared with the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.” The ancient civilization of the Armenians existed from before the first century C.E. Their boundaries and territory used to extend from the modern day Republic of Armenia and through most of modern day Turkey. The Armenians are kindhearted people who were deeply rooted in the Christian religion before that came tumbling down. The Armenian Genocide is full of traumatic events as an ancient civilization

Soon after the Ottoman Empire’s loss, the CUP, snatched the opportunity to erase and obliterate the Armenian population while everyone was distracted and preoccupied with the war. The CUP was a trio of three men, Mehmet Tallaat, Islmail Evner, and Ahamend Jemal all known as the Young Turks. This trio relied on other members of the CUP whom were in high government posts that were assigned to military commands to perform and carry out the genocide, properly beginning on April 24, 1915 (“Frequently Asked Questions about the Armenian Genocide”). Armenian civil leaders, intellectuals, artists, and businessmen were all rounded up and either murdered or sent to prison. Armenians were simply attacked and killed in downright bloody rampages committed by the Young Turks. The genocide was fully put into action when all of the Armenian leaders were killed off and many of the men were rapidly executed. The Young Turks began to deport the Armenians to Syria and Palestine merely telling them that they were being resettled to other parts of Turkey (Anderson). This mistreatment of Armenians becomes humane in Turkish eyes, as the propaganda began to become

Hundreds of thousands of Armenians perished in the camps from disease, thirst, starvation, and further round massacres during 1916. Along the routes of the camps, gangs known as the Arab and Kurdish tribes, compromised mostly of violent criminals, were recruited by the CUP to viciously attack and slaughter the Armenian refugees (Anderson). Within just a couple of months, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers became flooded and coalesced with dead bodies of Armenians which in effect polluted the water supply. This polluted the drinking water and dysentery and other related diseases spread like wildfire through the Armenian population that had originally survived the slaughter