The Armenian Genocide

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Armenia is a mountainous, landlocked country, on the southeastern edge of Europe and at the gateway to the Middle East and Asia.Armenia shares land borders with four countries: Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.The capital is Yerevan and is home to 2.977 million people. The nation symbol of Armenia is Mountain Ararat. Armenia is an ancient cultural heritage and is also home to the world’s oldest national church. Armenia was the first country to have adopted Christianity as its state religion.There are many types of sports played in Armenia just like America, they play football, volleyball, chess, boxing, basketball, hockey, wrestling and many more. Armenian music is a mix of indigenous folk music,as well as pop, and Christian music. …show more content…

During 1915 and 1923, an estimated one and half million Armenians were killed. Before the genocide, there was an estimated two million people living in the Ottoman Empire. Many Armenians fled to the Russian border ,however the Young Turk took the war into Caucasus , where 1,800,000 Armenians lived under Russian dominion. The Armenians were erased from the entire landmass of Asia Minor and historic West Armenia by 1923. The destruction of the Armenians communities was …show more content…

On that day the Turkish government arrested over two hundred Armenians community leaders in Constantinople. This was the day everything went downhill for the Armenians. Now this is a remember and day for the Armenians. It is considered a national holiday to remember the victims and their tragic deaths. In Yerevan, many Armenians walk the Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Memorial, a memorial complex on a hill of Tsitsernakaberd , where many lay fresh flowers out of respect for all the people who died during the genocide. A wide range of politicians, artists , musicians, athletes , and religious figures go pay respect to the

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...or them but we don’t think they pose a threat because they are so old that they might pass away pretty soon so were aware they are out there but were not on a hunt for them (Genocide Museum). You should feel the same way about both of these tragedies being wrong in every shape or form and they all needed to be punished for the crimes they did. Another thing to end this paper is that while studying about the genocide you notice that the genocides were never really talked about as much as the holocaust was and that should be changed because people need to know about the genocides and what happen in them. Everyone knows the holocaust was wrong but people don’t know nearly as much about the genocides as they should so that’s something that should change. The Armenian Genocide was just like the holocaust when it came to killing both were mass murders in every way.
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