The Armenian Genocide is also known as the Armenian Massacres, but by the Americans, it was called as the Great Crime. This took place after World War I and was implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and forced labor, and the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches to the Syrian Desert. Between 1 and 1.5 million total number of people who was killed as an estimated. So, should the Armenian be considered as an Genocide? Or should they not? The Ottoman Empire was the state responsible for the Armenian Genocide. The Ottoman empire was ruled by Muslim Turks headed by the sultanate of the Ottoman dynasty. The Ottoman state was called the Turkey or the Turkish Empire, but it was governed by the IsLamic law which is relegated non-Muslims to second class status by denying them basic civil rights and requiring them to pay extra taxes. The vast majority of the Armenians, created a group that was called millet or community and it was lead by their spiritual head, the Armenians Patriarch of Constantinople. They would be concentrated in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire, although large communities were also …show more content…
So, when the Ottoman took over their country, the leader decided to make some different changes to their government. So that if they were involved with any other religion, then they would answer to the ruler. This sounds more like the Salem Witch Trials, but without people pointing out that they were in belief in another religion. Like the Salem Witch Trials, the Armenians, didn’t really have much of a choice, other than to rot in jail or die on the