Armenian Genocide_The First Genocide Of 20th Century

The Genocide happened in the early years of the 20th century, when the fate of Ottoman Empire was closing to its end. Using the excuse of chaotic situation during the years of WWI, Turkish government accomplished its long waited plan, the annihilation of Armenian population of Western Armenia. During those years Armenia was not independent. Eastern Armenia was part of Russia and Western Armenia was under the rule of Ottoman Empire. In 1908, a young group of Turkish nationalists called Young Turks took charge of the Turkish government. The Turkish nationalists had one big dearm and that was creat

It is said that when Hittler was plotting for Holocaust, he noted in one of the Nazi meetings "Who remembers the Armenian Genocide anyway?" History proved that it remembers all of the atrocities humans inflict on eachother. And It is important for us not to forget. Generations of Armenians bare the responsibility of remembering the Genocide imposed on them and they demand justice. They will not stop untill the message will be heard by all the nations. No human should kill another unjustly and no government should exterminate its defenseless population unjustly since the Moon will not be under the cloud for ever.

While reports of atrocities accompanied news of the Ottoman campaigns on the eastern front from the very start of the war, the first indications of the systematic execution of the Armenian servicemen may be dated to February 1915. With the arrival of spring in April, the plan to annihilate the Armenians went into full operation. Once again the male population was targeted, this time the adults. All across the empire orders issued by the government required Armenian men to appear at designated government offices on a certain date. Storekeepers, school teachers, and farmers from the fields came voluntarily only to be summarily arrested and thrown into prisons.

If indescribable grief seized their being, the road ahead was full of torments. Younger women were at gravest risk. They were prone to be abducted. Some were taken as servant girls. Others were seized as unwilling brides. Even more were violated with unspeakable cruelty, their last moments a grizzly experience in physical and spiritual agony. To avoid this fate some chose the only avenue of escape left to them. Arm in arm groups of women flung themselves from cliff-tops or drowned themselves in rivers.

To meet the requirements of the circumstance, the government created a secret outfit called the Special Organization, whose specialty was mass murder. Composed of criminal convicts and other vicious sorts, the bands of the Special Organization attacked the convoys of deportees in narrow ravines and along river banks and carried out an awful butchery. In all the centuries, and in all the ages, the world had not witnessed slaughter on such a scale carried out with swords and bayonets. For the hundreds of thousands who were killed en route, the deportations were merely the means of delivering them to the brutality of the Special Organization, the dispensers of the ultimate terror.

The frightening originality of the Young Turk plan for genocide was located in the idea of deportation. Organizing the extermination of two million people still lay beyond the technological capabilities of the time. But the method of deportation met nearly all the criteria required for the decimation of a population. Within days the deportation cleared the Armenians from their homes and converted them into a mass subtracted from Ottoman society. Denied any protection, the whole of the Armenian community was placed in harm's way, as Turks and Kurds were given free license to appropriate for themselves the abandoned belongings of the Armenians. Easy gain only fed the desire for greater gain, and the exposed convoys of deportees were plundered again and again until men and women, in many instances, were left without any clothing, wandering naked in the wilderness.

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