ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DAY OF REMEMBRANCE (1915-1923) INTL
Categories: Anniversary, Military, Civil Rights & Legal
Location: Worldwide
Type of Event: Daily Event
Updated: May 06, 2024
Location: Worldwide
Type of Event: Daily Event
Updated: May 06, 2024
About International Remembrance Day for the Victims of the Armenian Genocide
Most Americans think the holocaust in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s was the first of its kind. That this was the first time concentration camps were used, mass gassings and cattle cars to transport victims. That this was the first time a group of people were targeted for extermination due to their faith and race.
They would be wrong.
It happened before, only this time it wasn’t the Jews, communists, homosexuals, Catholics and handicap who were targeted. It was Christians in Armenia and the empire targeting them wasn’t the Nazis, but the Ottoman Empire.
The Armenian Genocide was the precursor, the practice run. It is where many of the future Nazi leaders would get their ideas. It is believed, had known about the horrors that happened to the Armenians, the holocaust likely could have been avoided. Even Hitler stated such, intimating that no one remembered the Armenians, why would they remember the Jews?
On April 24, 2025 hundreds Armenian Intellectuals: poets, musicians, publicists, editors, lawyers, doctors, deputies, were arrested in Constantinople under warrants issued by the Turkish authorities. They were all sent into exile and were horrifically slaughtered. The annihilation of the Armenian Intellectuals was the part of a systematic, fiendish plan to exterminate the Armenian people in their homeland. It was the first state-planned Genocide of the 20th century.
To this day, the Turkish Government continues to deny the genocide, despite the fact it was the Ottoman Empire, not the current government of Turkey that was responsible. It has been a source of political impasse.
Between 1915 and 1923 the Armenian Genocide was conceived and carried out by the Ottoman Empire resulting in the deportation of nearly 2,000,000 Armenians, of whom 1,500,000 men, women, and children were killed and 500,000 survivors were expelled from their homes, and the elimination of the over 2,500-year presence of Armenians in their historic homeland.
Very little has been written about this. The best account is in Robert Fisk’s “The Great War for Civilization”, which is the book this writer first learned of this event in 2004. Additionally, there is a film, available on Netflix, which outlines what happened during 1916-1918 called “Ararat”. It’s highly recommended and will provide a context to this horrific event.
It may finally get its due. In March 2014, during an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net, Oscar winning director of “Schindler’s List”, Steve Spielberg noted that he’s been collecting information on the Armenian Genocide as well as others that occurred last century including Rwanda and Cambodia.
Read the full Senate Resolution for more details on this event: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.RES.410:
Learn More at: http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/remembrance_day.php#sthash.l5c7K4dg.dpuf
They would be wrong.
It happened before, only this time it wasn’t the Jews, communists, homosexuals, Catholics and handicap who were targeted. It was Christians in Armenia and the empire targeting them wasn’t the Nazis, but the Ottoman Empire.
The Armenian Genocide was the precursor, the practice run. It is where many of the future Nazi leaders would get their ideas. It is believed, had known about the horrors that happened to the Armenians, the holocaust likely could have been avoided. Even Hitler stated such, intimating that no one remembered the Armenians, why would they remember the Jews?
On April 24, 2025 hundreds Armenian Intellectuals: poets, musicians, publicists, editors, lawyers, doctors, deputies, were arrested in Constantinople under warrants issued by the Turkish authorities. They were all sent into exile and were horrifically slaughtered. The annihilation of the Armenian Intellectuals was the part of a systematic, fiendish plan to exterminate the Armenian people in their homeland. It was the first state-planned Genocide of the 20th century.
To this day, the Turkish Government continues to deny the genocide, despite the fact it was the Ottoman Empire, not the current government of Turkey that was responsible. It has been a source of political impasse.
Between 1915 and 1923 the Armenian Genocide was conceived and carried out by the Ottoman Empire resulting in the deportation of nearly 2,000,000 Armenians, of whom 1,500,000 men, women, and children were killed and 500,000 survivors were expelled from their homes, and the elimination of the over 2,500-year presence of Armenians in their historic homeland.
Very little has been written about this. The best account is in Robert Fisk’s “The Great War for Civilization”, which is the book this writer first learned of this event in 2004. Additionally, there is a film, available on Netflix, which outlines what happened during 1916-1918 called “Ararat”. It’s highly recommended and will provide a context to this horrific event.
It may finally get its due. In March 2014, during an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net, Oscar winning director of “Schindler’s List”, Steve Spielberg noted that he’s been collecting information on the Armenian Genocide as well as others that occurred last century including Rwanda and Cambodia.
Read the full Senate Resolution for more details on this event: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.RES.410:
Learn More at: http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/remembrance_day.php#sthash.l5c7K4dg.dpuf
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