Armenian Genocide
Ottoman Empire. (Fact Sheet: Armenian Genocide) (Wikipedia, 2011) (UHRC, 2011)
First the Armenians in the army were disarmed, placed into labor battalions, and then killed
and then the Armenian political and intellectual leaders were rounded up on April 24, 1915,
and then killed. Finally, the remaining Armenians were called from their homes, told they
would be relocated, and then marched off to concentration camps in the desert between
Jerablus and Deir Ez-Zor where they starved and thirsted to death in the burning sun. (Fact
Sheet: Armenian Genocide) (Wikipedia, 2011) (ANI, 2011)
1.2. The Armenian Massacre
The Armenian Massacre started in the early 1900's, when secret meetings began to be held by
the Turks. It has been quoted that a man named Dr. Nazim had once said "If we are going to
do something like the Adana massacre of 1909, here and there, the result will do us more
harm than good." Dr