The Armenian Genocide

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The Armenian Genocide was the first of many deadly genocides during the early 1900s. It started because of the Islamic Ottoman Turks’ continuous hatred of the Christian Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. The Armenians revolted in the hopes of a new Armenia, but they were sent out of the Ottoman Empire. Some of the Armenians stayed inside of the Empire because their lack of involvement in the battles themselves, but the Turks thought they were disobeying orders. The Turks began to round up the Armenians and started a mass slaughter. (Genocide1915.info)
The Young Turks were a group of young radicals looking for change in Armenia. The Young Turks influenced the future of genocides, because when Hitler persecuted the Jews he started the program call the Hitler Youth. This program caused children to be corrupt and train them to persecute Jews. This essay should explain how the genocide happened, how it affected the children, and the effect on future genocides. (Genocide1915.info)
The Armenian genocide officially started in 1915, when the Ottomans imprisoned 250 Armenian leaders and killed (Armenian-genocide.org). This caused much worry for the Armenian people, but they did not know what to expect next. In the Ottoman Empire, it only got worse more and more people were captured and killed. Many were sexually violated, robbed, before they were finally killed. The Young Turks started the genocide.
The Young Turks first appeared in 1908, when the Ottoman Empire was in a steady decline. Their plan was to stop this decline through nationalism. In July of 1908, they wanted to gain rights for the people of the Ottoman Empire and seize of the country. At this point, the Armenians and the Turks were beginning to see great change in the cou...

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...own as the Special Organization, where criminals were forced to attack Christian Armenians and kill them. This quickly became out of control as the raids of criminals began to rape women and steal whatever they pleased. They imprisoned some young Armenian women and kept them as sex slaves for the state. (Armenian-genocide.org)
As time went by, the Turks lost places to store the dead bodies of the Armenian people. They were starting to be buried under the streets in the Ottoman Empire. It started to become a problem for the people when the tourists were able to see the corpses on the ground, and half buried. The triumvirate sent out a coded notice to the leaders of the empire telling them to hide the bodies of the corpses better. The leaders did not receive the message or were not able to understand the message, which caused the Turks to be caught in their genocide.

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