Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide, also known in Armenia as the "Great Crime", is often referred to as the first genocide of modern times. The Great Crime will be the first time that the term genocide would be used, it described a mass killing of one ethnic group. The Armenian Genocide started off as a hope for a revolution for Armenian People. For years The Armenians were controlled by others, such as: The Greeks, Persians, Romans, and the Ottoman Empire. With the rapid decrease in the Ottoman Empires strength and dwindling land the time was ripe to for a revolution, this revolution was known as the, " Young Turk Movement". The Nationalists won the movement and gained power, they were very discriminative and hateful towards the Armenian people. This is when the Genocide would start three hundred Armenian leaders will be jailed, killed, and tortured in Constantinople. Due to the outbreak of World War I the genocide is silent to the rest of the world. The Turks, continued there blood bath on the Armenians and accused them of aiding the Russians, this fuelled the genocide and the Turks would start to round up thousands of Armenians and kill them on the spot. Once World War I was over the radical Turkish leaders fled in fear of punishment but not after killing over a million and a half Armenian people.

The genocide of the Armenian people can't be summed up in one word, the adjectives such as horrific, malicious, and detesting does nothing to describe the horrendous actions that were carried out on the Armenians.  It is also mind boggling that such heinous crimes can go unnoticed and no justice taken. The Turks were allowed to just leave scot free after decimating a culture, they killed almost one and a half million people, in very grotesque ways yet there was not an ounce of punishment on the Turks. This genocide is seen again in about forty years with Adolf Hitler in the reins. It can also be witnessed today in middle eastern countries, radical leaders still try to kill millions of other racial, religious, or ethnic group of people whom they differ with. It is ridiculous that these actions can still be so prevalent in the twenty first century.