Armenian Genocide Essay
The Twentieth Century has had multiple cases of genocides and ethnic cleansing.The most infamous case of this would be unanimously stated as the Holocaust, but the Armenian Genocide, also known as the Forgotten Genocide was the precursor to the events initiated by the Nazis. The relative ignorance to the events that happened just a century ago begs the question, Does the wartime environment allow for human rights to be violated ? Firstly; however, who are the Armenians and why were they persecuted so terribly? Well, the Armenians are a vibrant ethnic group from the Northern Middle East best known for their Christian background. For four thousand years, Armenians have lived in present day Eastern Turkey and Armenia. During the Fourth Century
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The Holocaust, which killed over eleven million people was done almost exclusively during World War Two. The Rwandan Genocide which killed 800,000 people occurred during the Rwandan Civil War. and the ongoing Genocide in Darfur has killed some 400,000 people, all during its civil war. One thing all these atrocities have in common is the wartime climate they occurred in. This disturbing similarity helps us analyze the true nature of genocide. In a nation during wartime, it is surprisingly simple to single people out as “friendly” and not, and it is easier for governments to claim the genocides and killings to be exaggerations to what actually happened. This is evident in modern day Turkey, which still denies the Armenian genocide happened. Also, (in the case of Rwanda), an extremist or rebel group which is made up of an ethnic majority can cause the government to single out the group as the enemy. In the case of Bosnia, political and ethnic faction-ing can make it easy for a government to justify genocide by claiming it will return stability. Whatever the case, the insecurity of the wartime climate does allow for genocide to be promoted by national government. Concluding, the multiple genocides of the twentieth century have and still are teaching us lessons on human nature and genocide. Genocide has taught us that it is easy to single a people group out
The Holocaust, which killed over eleven million people was done almost exclusively during World War Two. The Rwandan Genocide which killed 800,000 people occurred during the Rwandan Civil War. and the ongoing Genocide in Darfur has killed some 400,000 people, all during its civil war. One thing all these atrocities have in common is the wartime climate they occurred in. This disturbing similarity helps us analyze the true nature of genocide. In a nation during wartime, it is surprisingly simple to single people out as “friendly” and not, and it is easier for governments to claim the genocides and killings to be exaggerations to what actually happened. This is evident in modern day Turkey, which still denies the Armenian genocide happened. Also, (in the case of Rwanda), an extremist or rebel group which is made up of an ethnic majority can cause the government to single out the group as the enemy. In the case of Bosnia, political and ethnic faction-ing can make it easy for a government to justify genocide by claiming it will return stability. Whatever the case, the insecurity of the wartime climate does allow for genocide to be promoted by national government. Concluding, the multiple genocides of the twentieth century have and still are teaching us lessons on human nature and genocide. Genocide has taught us that it is easy to single a people group out