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The Armenian Genocide: The Great Calamity

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The Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Great Calamity, and the Armenian Massacre, was the organized killing of nearly 1.5 million Armenians. It occurred in the Ottoman Empire, present day Turkey, where 2 million Armenians lived. The Armenian Genocide is the second-most studied massacre, after the Nazi Holocaust. Aurora Mardiganian was the daughter of a poor Armenian Family. She witnessed the deaths of her family members and she was forced to walk over 1,400 miles when she was deported from her home into a concentration camps. Where she was tortured and beaten. She was kidnapped and sold into the slave market where she would work for her owner until she died. Aurora escaped by running away in the middle of the …show more content…

These killing squads were made up of murderers. They drowned people in rivers, threw them off cliffs, crucified them and burned them alive. By then, the countryside was scattered with Armenian corpses. Government squads also kidnapped children, converted them to Islam and gave them to Turkish families. In some places, they raped women and forced them to serve as slaves. Muslim families moved into the homes of deported Armenians and seized their property and sold to the government where they we not to return to it.
Responses to the Attack

Leaders of the Armenian genocide were never brought to justice. The Turkish government managed to cover up the wrongs, going as far as blackmailing other countries into ignoring the actions committed by the Turkish government during World War I. The United States is one of these countries. No recent American president in office has yet to admit the wrongs the Turks committed. This fear of the genocide has gone on to remove the topic from American discussion. The United States should hold the Turkish government responsible for this crime against humanity, as well as to take a step forward and have its citizens become educated about the Armenian

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