Armenian Genocide Centennial - AYF Juniors (badanegan) Greece - ENGLISH subs
The 5th generation of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide were asked to express their thoughts and feelings when hearing the words Genocide, Armenia and 100 years. The result is this tribute video in memory of the 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide commited by Turkey.
These children have proven through their innocent and spontaneous thoughts that Armenia has a bright future. A future that they are prepared to fight and live for.
Remember and Demand.
video: S.A.
Congressman Lantos: Armenian Genocide vs Turkish Threats
The Genocide of the Armenians by the Turkish government during World War I represents a major tragedy of the modern age. In this the first Genocide of the 20th century, almost an entire nation was destroyed. The Armenian people were effectively eliminated from the homeland they had occupied for nearly three thousand years. This annihilation was premeditated and planned to be carried out under the cover of war.
During the night of April 23-24, 1915, Armenian political, religious, educational, and intellectual leaders in Istanbul were arrested, deported to the interior, and mercilessly put to death. Turkish Media . Medya Turk .Next, the Turkish government ordered the deportation of the Armenian people to relocation centers - actually to the barren deserts of Syria and Mesopotamia. The Armenians were driven out brutally from the length and breadth of the empire. Secrecy, surprise, deception, torture, dehumanization, rape and pillage were all a part of the process. The whole of Asia Minor was put in motion.
The greatest torment was reserved for the women and children, who were driven for months over mountains and deserts, often dehumanized by being stripped naked and repeatedly preyed upon and abused. Intentionally deprived of food and water, they fell by the hundreds of thousands along the routes to the desert.
There were some survivors scattered throughout the Middle East and Transcaucasia. Turkiye Turkiye Turkiye. Thousands of them, refugees here and there, were to die of starvation, epidemics, and exposure. Even the memory of the nation was intended for obliteration. The former existence of Armenians in Turkey was denied. Maps and history were rewritten. Churches, schools, and cultural monuments were desecrated and misnamed. Small children, snatched from their parents, were renamed and farmed out to be raised as Turks. The Turks annexed ancestors of the area in ancient times to claim falsely, by such deception, that they inhabited this region from ancient days. A small remnant of the Armenian homeland remained devastated by war and populated largely by starving refugees, only to be subsequently overrun by the Bolshevik Red Army and incorporated into the Soviet Union for seven decades, until its breakup in 1990. The word genocide had not yet been coined. Nonetheless, at the time, many governmental spokesmen and statesmen decried the mass murder of the Armenians as crimes against humanity, and murder of a nation.
Reports of the atrocities gradually came out and were eventually disseminated the world over by newspapers, journals, and eyewitness accounts. In the United States a number of prominent leaders and organizations established fundraising drives for the remnants of the Starving Armenians. In Europe the Allied Powers gave public notice that they would hold personally responsible all members of the Turkish government and others who had planned or participated in the massacres. Sikim turk. Yet, within a few years, these same governments and statesmen turned away from the Armenians in total disregard of their pledges. Soon the Armenian genocide had become the Forgotten Genocide.Armenian Genocide Museum (Interior View)
In effect, the Turkish government had succeeded in its diabolical plan to exterminate the Armenian population from what is now Turkey. The failure of the international community to remember, or to honor their promises to punish the perpetrators, or to cause Turkey to indemnify the survivors helped convince Adolph Hitler some 20 years later to carry out a similar policy of extermination against the Jews and certain other non-Aryan populations of Europe.
The Genocide Monument is designed to memorialize the innocent victims of this first genocide of the 20th century. Turkish Media . The Genocide Museum teaches that understanding the Armenian Genocide is an important step in preventing similar tragedies in the future, and that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it
Ararat Holy Mountain
Lyrics, music, vokal-Margarita Khachatryan
There are thousands of sights in Armenia, each uniquely impressive and memorable. However, anyone who visits Armenia will forever remember the most majestic and noble scene in the world, the fabulous view of Holy Mount Ararat.
The Bible states: And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mount Ararat. (Genesis, 8:4). During the Great flood, after floating on waters for 150 days, Noah's ark parked on Mount Ararat, and on this very day, the human race was granted a second birth in Armenia: on Mount Ararat. This very fact makes both Ararat and Armenia a holy place.
Ararat is a blessed mountain for Armenians. This mountain has miraculous beauty, and is a symbol of the motherland for every Armenian living in any corner of the world. As well, Ararat is a holy pilgrimage destination for the whole world. Foreigners would come to Armenia as pilgrims even in the past, when the snow was melting and the gigantic ark of Noah could be seen. Then, the world temperature decreased and the ark, that once saved everything, was covered under snow. Many scientists and researchers have tried to find the exact place of the ark. And for this purpose Ararat has been photographed from satellites. Many interesting facts have been discovered and they indirectly confirm the existence of the ark. In any case, these puzzles will hopefully get their answers one day.
Mount Ararat has been a source of inspiration for many poets and painters with its matchless beauty. Biblical Mount Ararat has always been and still is the silent witness of the multi-centurial Armenian history.
In addition, Mount Ararat reminds us of one of the greatest crimes towards Armenians and humanity: the Armenian Genocide. Ararat is an eternal monument for over 1.5 million innocent Armenian victims massacred by Ottoman Turkey in 1915.
Armenians will always maintain the hope that this historic injustice will one day be overcome; that Turkey will admit its guilt and Mount Ararat will be free again.
Although the mountain is not in modern Armenia today, the best view of the Holy Mountain is in fact from Armenia.
Armenia” is one of the most ancient place-names on Earth.
Although the various civilisations of ancient Mesopotamia have receded into the historical backdrop, their influence survives to this day. Cartography, or map-making, was just one of the many fields that was pioneered between the Tigris and the Euphrates all those millennia ago.
And one of the most ancient maps of the world (well, for us today, a map of the Near East or the Middle East) was carved out in clay, attributed to the Babylonians of the 6th century BC. It includes the land of “Urartu” or “Urashtu”, which was the Babylonian word for what the ancient Persians referred to as “Armina”, known more famously later – and to this day – as “Armenia”.
The Kingdom of Urartu or Ararat lasted from the 9th to the 6th century BC, during the course of which it competed against Assyrians and Babylonians, as well as Medians and other ancient Persians. It is considered to be the pre-cursor of the ancient Armenian kingdoms. Centred around Mount Ararat – and that mountain remains a strong symbol for Armenians – the capital of Urartu is oftentimes referred to as the first Armenian capital. The fortress of Tushpa still towers above the city of Van – a city that has one of the longest records in the world of being continuously inhabited, and certainly a city with a most ancient Armenian population until 1915.
The modern Armenian capital, Yerevan, also has a pedigree from Urartu. Archaeological work in the 1950s brought to light the fortress of Erebuni, established on what is part of Yerevan today by King Argishti I in 782 BC, according to inscriptions found during excavations. The king’s declaration, carved onto stone in the cuneiform script of Mesopotamia, is considered to be Yerevan’s “birth certificate”, the name “Yerevan” itself being derived from “Erebuni” by the same token. The year 1968 was marked with wide-spread celebrations of the 2,750th anniversary of the founding of the fortress, and days dedicated to the Yerevan-Erebuni story continue to be held with annual public events in the country.
Armenian Genocide | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Armenian Genocide
00:02:02 1 Terminology
00:06:55 2 Background
00:07:04 2.1 Armenians under Ottoman rule
00:10:42 2.2 Reform, 1840s–1880s
00:15:41 2.3 Armenian national liberation movement
00:16:43 2.4 Hamidian massacres, 1894–1896
00:19:16 3 Prelude to the Genocide
00:19:26 3.1 The Young Turk Revolution of 1908
00:21:07 3.2 The Adana massacre of 1909
00:22:08 3.3 Conflict in the Balkans and Russia
00:23:49 4 World War I
00:25:15 4.1 Labour battalions
00:26:46 4.2 Van, April 1915
00:28:45 4.3 Arrest and deportation of Armenian notables, April 1915
00:30:20 4.4 Deportations
00:32:30 4.4.1 Death marches
00:36:36 4.4.2 Concentration camps
00:38:31 4.5 The Special Organization
00:39:46 4.6 Massacres
00:39:55 4.6.1 Mass burnings
00:41:11 4.6.2 Drowning
00:42:48 4.6.3 Use of poison and drug overdoses
00:45:13 4.7 Confiscation of property
00:48:33 4.8 Trials
00:48:41 4.8.1 Turkish courts-martial
00:51:12 4.8.2 Detainees in Malta
00:53:29 4.8.3 Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian
00:54:27 4.9 International aid to victims
00:55:43 5 Armenian population, deaths, survivors, 1914 to 1923
00:58:33 6 Eyewitness accounts and reports
00:59:32 6.1 The U.S. Mission in the Ottoman Empire
01:01:25 6.1.1 Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
01:02:21 6.2 Allied forces in the Middle East
01:04:01 6.2.1 Arnold Toynbee: iThe Treatment of Armenians/i
01:05:06 6.3 Austrian and German joint mission
01:11:53 6.3.1 Armin T. Wegner
01:13:28 6.4 Ottoman Empire and Turkey
01:21:23 6.5 Russian military
01:22:10 6.6 Scandinavian missionaries and diplomats
01:27:11 6.7 Persia
01:28:27 7 Studies on the Genocide
01:31:38 8 Recognition of the Genocide
01:34:14 8.1 Republic of Turkey and the Genocide
01:38:01 8.1.1 Controversies
01:44:41 8.2 The Republic of Armenia and the Genocide
01:46:09 9 Cultural loss
01:48:02 10 Reparations to the victims
01:48:12 10.1 Reparations on the grounds of international law
01:50:51 10.2 Sèvres Treaty
01:51:33 10.3 Lawsuits
01:52:15 11 Commemoration
01:52:24 11.1 Memorials
01:54:14 11.2 Portrayal in the media
01:58:34 12 See also
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The Armenian Genocide (Armenian: Հայոց ցեղասպանություն, Hayots tseghaspanutyun), also known as the Armenian Holocaust, was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians, mostly citizens within the Ottoman Empire. The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported from Constantinople (now Istanbul) to the region of Ankara 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders, the majority of whom were eventually murdered. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases—the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian Desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre. Other ethnic groups were similarly targeted for extermination in the Assyrian genocide and the Greek genocide, and their treatment is considered by some historians to be part of the same genocidal policy. Most Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide.Raphael Lemkin was moved specifically by the annihilation of the Armenians to define systematic and premeditated exterminations within legal parameters and coin the word genocide in 1943. The Armenian Genocide is acknowledged to have been one of the first modern genocides, because scholars point to the organized manner in which the killings were carried out. It is the second most-studied case of genocide after the Holocaust.Turkey denies the word genocide is an accurate term for these crimes. In recent years, Turkey has been faced with repeated calls ...
Ararat Holy Mountain (Iv.&IIv.)
Lyrics, music, vokal-Margarita Khachatryan
There are thousands of sights in Armenia, each uniquely impressive and memorable. However, anyone who visits Armenia will forever remember the most majestic and noble scene in the world, the fabulous view of Holy Mount Ararat.
The Bible states: And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mount Ararat. (Genesis, 8:4). During the Great flood, after floating on waters for 150 days, Noah's ark parked on Mount Ararat, and on this very day, the human race was granted a second birth in Armenia: on Mount Ararat. This very fact makes both Ararat and Armenia a holy place.
Ararat is a blessed mountain for Armenians. This mountain has miraculous beauty, and is a symbol of the motherland for every Armenian living in any corner of the world. As well, Ararat is a holy pilgrimage destination for the whole world. Foreigners would come to Armenia as pilgrims even in the past, when the snow was melting and the gigantic ark of Noah could be seen. Then, the world temperature decreased and the ark, that once saved everything, was covered under snow. Many scientists and researchers have tried to find the exact place of the ark. And for this purpose Ararat has been photographed from satellites. Many interesting facts have been discovered and they indirectly confirm the existence of the ark. In any case, these puzzles will hopefully get their answers one day.
Mount Ararat has been a source of inspiration for many poets and painters with its matchless beauty. Biblical Mount Ararat has always been and still is the silent witness of the multi-centurial Armenian history.
In addition, Mount Ararat reminds us of one of the greatest crimes towards Armenians and humanity: the Armenian Genocide. Ararat is an eternal monument for over 1.5 million innocent Armenian victims massacred by Ottoman Turkey in 1915.
Armenians will always maintain the hope that this historic injustice will one day be overcome; that Turkey will admit its guilt and Mount Ararat will be free again.
Although the mountain is not in modern Armenia today, the best view of the Holy Mountain is in fact from Armenia.
Armenia” is one of the most ancient place-names on Earth.
Although the various civilisations of ancient Mesopotamia have receded into the historical backdrop, their influence survives to this day. Cartography, or map-making, was just one of the many fields that was pioneered between the Tigris and the Euphrates all those millennia ago.
And one of the most ancient maps of the world (well, for us today, a map of the Near East or the Middle East) was carved out in clay, attributed to the Babylonians of the 6th century BC. It includes the land of “Urartu” or “Urashtu”, which was the Babylonian word for what the ancient Persians referred to as “Armina”, known more famously later – and to this day – as “Armenia”.
The Kingdom of Urartu or Ararat lasted from the 9th to the 6th century BC, during the course of which it competed against Assyrians and Babylonians, as well as Medians and other ancient Persians. It is considered to be the pre-cursor of the ancient Armenian kingdoms. Centred around Mount Ararat – and that mountain remains a strong symbol for Armenians – the capital of Urartu is oftentimes referred to as the first Armenian capital. The fortress of Tushpa still towers above the city of Van – a city that has one of the longest records in the world of being continuously inhabited, and certainly a city with a most ancient Armenian population until 1915.
The modern Armenian capital, Yerevan, also has a pedigree from Urartu. Archaeological work in the 1950s brought to light the fortress of Erebuni, established on what is part of Yerevan today by King Argishti I in 782 BC, according to inscriptions found during excavations. The king’s declaration, carved onto stone in the cuneiform script of Mesopotamia, is considered to be Yerevan’s “birth certificate”, the name “Yerevan” itself being derived from “Erebuni” by the same token. The year 1968 was marked with wide-spread celebrations of the 2,750th anniversary of the founding of the fortress, and days dedicated to the Yerevan-Erebuni story continue to be held with annual public events in the country.
Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series - March 6, 2018 - Sergio La Porta, Ph.D.
Title: The Armenian Genocide
Professor Sergio La Porta, Ph.D., CSU Fresno Armenian Studies Program
Underwritten by the Armenian Genocide Memorial Lecture Fund
Description: The Holocaust & Genocide Lecture Series is supported by the SSU Instructionally Related Activities (IRA) Fund, the Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, the Paul V. Benko Holocaust Education Endowment, the Armenian Genocide Memorial Lecture Fund, the Adele Zygielbaum En, the Thomas Family Foundation, the Center for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide and the Jewish Community Federation (JCF).