FREE ESSAY ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

What Does Genocide Mean?
The era of mass murder might be given as a name for the 20th century. Never in the
history of the world have so many millions of people been deliberately killed since 1900.
These millions weren't all because of war. They were victims of genocide: the deliberate
killings of racial, religious, ethnic, or political groups. 
The word genocide is from the Greek genos, meaningrace, or tribe, and the Latin cide,
meaning killing. 
The First Significant Genocide...
The Armenian Genocide was directed against the residents of Asia Minor by the Turkish
government. This deliberate slaughter began on April 24, 1915, under the cover of World
War 1. The number killed are uncertain. The lowest is 800,000 and the highest more than 2
million. 
First the Armenians in the army were disarmed, placed into battalions, and then killed.
Then the Armenian political leaders were rounded up on April 24, 1915, and then killed.
Finally, the remaining Armenians were called from thier homes, told they would be
relocated, and then marched off to concentration camps in the desert between Jerablus and
Deir ez-Zor where they would starve and thirst to death in the sun.
On March, often they would be denied food and water, and many were brutalized and killed
by their guards. The authorities in Trezbizond, on the Black Sea coast, loaded Armenians
on barges and sank them out at sea.
The Turkish government has denied that this ever happened, but this event has been
carefully recorded by others.
My Comment:
As I said before the era of mass murder should be given the name of the 20th century.
This century was when most people for either their race, ethnic, or religion had been
killed purposely. From the Jewish Holocaust to the all other genocides. Yet, there is
also a reason why this happened. Maybe it was because it was a lesson to show us how
easily we are capable of doing such atrocities as this. These past genocides also show us
how important it is to be at peace with one another. Without this peace look what it all
caused.