That 30,000 number is a bit on the light side.
The
Armenian Genocide[8] (
Armenian: Հայոց ցեղասպանություն
Hayots tseghaspanutyun),
[note 3] also known as the
Armenian Holocaust,
[9] the
Armenian Massacres and, traditionally by Armenians, as the
Aghet (Armenian: աղետ, translated as "Catastrophe")
[10] or
Medz Yeghern (Armenian: Մեծ Եղեռն, translated as "Great Crime")
[11] was the
Ottoman government's systematic extermination of its minority
Armenian subjects inside their historic homeland, which lies within the present-day
Republic of Turkey. The number of victims is estimated at between 800,000 and 1.5 million.
[12][13] The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported some
250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders from
Constantinople to
Ankara, the majority of whom were eventually murdered.
The genocide was carried out during and after
World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on
death marches leading to the
Syrian desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre.
[14][15][16] Other
indigenous and Christian ethnic groups such as the
Assyrians and the
Ottoman Greeks were similarly targeted for extermination by the
Ottoman government, and their treatment is considered by some historians to be part of the same genocidal policy.
[17][18] Most
Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide.
[19]
Raphael Lemkin was explicitly moved by the Armenian annihilation to coin the word
genocide in 1943 and define systematic and premeditated exterminations within legal parameters.
[20] The Armenian Genocide is acknowledged to have been one of the first modern
genocides,
[21][22][23] because scholars point to the organized manner in which the killings were carried out in order to eliminate the Armenians, and it is the second most-studied case of genocide after the
Holocaust.
[24]
Turkey, the
successor state of the Ottoman Empire,
denies the word
genocide as an accurate term for the mass killings of Armenians that began under Ottoman rule in 1915. It has in recent years been faced with repeated calls to recognize them as genocide.
[25] To date, 29 countries have
officially recognized the mass killings as genocide,
[26] a view which is shared by most genocide scholars and historians.
[27][28][29]
Much more, unfortunately, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
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Originally Posted by SemiteArt
I cant believe how they fool millions of people with such a cheap lie.
