ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

ESTIMATED 1.5 MILLION KILLED

• Genocide occured in the Ottoman Empire
• Genocide comitted by CUP/ Turkish Amry
• Other indigenous and Christian ethnic groups targeted
• One of the first modern genocides
• Second most studied genocide after the Holocaust

COMMITTEE OF UNION AND PROGRESS

• Begun as a liberal reform movement in the Ottoman Empire
• Turned into a political party by Bahaeddin Sakir
• Factions of the CUP began to view the Armenian people as a 5th collum
• They felt that the Armenian people would betray the Ottoman Empire
• Most of the members were court marshalled by the sultan Mehmed Vl

DEATHS

• On 4/24/1915 300 male scholars were taken out of their homes
• They were jailed shortly and then beaten and killed
• Next the rest of the men were taken to the outskirts of town and killed
• Turkish towns people would often join in the killings

WOMEN, CHILDREN, ELDERS

• Women were told to grab few things
• They were told that they were part of a relocation program to get out of the war zone
• Really they were part of death marches to the Sahara Dessert
• They had no food or water on the matches and many died of dehydration and starvation
• They were also loaded on ships and the army would sink the ships

RECOGNIZING GENOCIDE

• Only 23 countries have recognized the Armenian genocide as a genocide
• They have marches to protest about it
• The genocide offically ended in 1923, 5 years after the CUP had dissolved