The Eight Stages Of The Armenian Genocide

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Introduction:
In 1914 through 1918, the Armenians were trapped in a box where they were tossed and thrown around in until they broke apart. The Turks while they were still labeled as the Ottoman Empire was in a war with Russia was afraid that one of their occupied lands, Armenia, would turn to Russia since they both were Christians. This forced the Turkish to decide it was time to completely get rid of the Armenians. Even without any complete evidence that the Armenians would betray the the Turks, Armenians were still blamed and killed. Even today, Turkey still denies they committed genocide. The massacre that took place in the Ottoman Empire between 1914-1918 should be considered genocide because it went through all eight stages of genocide …show more content…

CD: They stage of genocide, Preparation began by creating a list of people they need to kill first before attacking the entire Armenian population, “The letters contained the blacklist of Armenians to be arrested - a list which had been compiled with the help of Armenian traitors, and in particular by Artin Mkrtchian as well as the neighborhood littenatist [Young Turks] clubs. Those listed were the Armenians who had played vital roles as social reformers or nonpartisans, and were deemed to be able to incite revolution or resistance” (Crimes Against Humanity 93).

AP: Before the killing started, the Turks assembled a list of important Armenians to remove first to make extermination re-volt free. They were either separated from their families or killed.

AP: Removing the upper class Armenians helped the Turks kill of the rest of the Armenians off because without the leaders and great thinkers, they don’t think about revolution nor do they know how to revolt. The rest of the Armenians, mainly involving old people, women and children, are forced to leave their own …show more content…

AP: Taking their homes away made it easier to deport the people because, with their home gone, they’d have nowhere else to go. Without the safety of their home, the Armenians who were not killed were forced to be deported and killed along the way.

CD: And finally, when the Armenians are completely separated from each other, they’re either tortured or killed, “For a moment we were so shaken, we were convinced that we were being taken out to the Sea of Mavmara to be drowned. Many of the men were crying, many were remembering their loved ones as we sailed toward the open sea. In a few months, many of us would regret that we had not thrown ourselves into the sea that night. Because death by sea would have been kinder than the torture the Turks did to us with aces and hatchets in the places they would later take us” (Crimes Against Humanity 93).

AP: A handful of Armenians were taken out to the middle of sea to be tortured without any escape or

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