Armenia Armenia is located in the middle east right above Iran and to the right of turkey.

ArmeniaArmenia is located in the middle east right above Iran and to the right of turkey.

Who was killing who?

The Gov. was killing off the Armenian people who were the minority of the country.

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Armenia was under Turkish rule and the Armenians

wanted more civil rights and the sultan/ government took it

as a threat.

METHODS OF MAYHEM Mass Burnings- The most infamous incident is a village of

5,000 Armenian being gathered and burned alive. Drowning- They would most often take a boat full of women

and children out into the ocean, and throw them all overboard.

Death Marches- Most often this occurred outside of the Syrian town of Deir ez-Zor. It was mostly surrounded by desert. Throughout the march the commander would encourage his men to harass, rape, and beat the Armenians trailing behind them.

Extermination Camps- It is believed there were 25 extermination camps in effect during the Genocide. Most of them were used for mass graves.

It was estimated at about 1.5 million were killed in the Armenian genocide.

HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE?

It started after WWI or in 1915-1923

WHEN DID THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

OCCUR?

The Ottoman government killed at around an estimated 1.5 million of their Armenian subjects.

HOW DOES IT FIT THE DEFINITION OF A GENOCIDE?

The internation community condemned the genocide. The Allied victors demanded, after the war, that the Ottoman government prosecute the Young Turks occused of wartime crimes. however, nothing was ever really done.

HOW DID THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY REACT TO THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE?

http://www.armenian-genocide.org/genocidefaq.html http://

wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_the_world_react_to_the_Armenian_genocide

http://www.history.com/topics/armenian-genocide http://www.armenian-genocide.org/genocidefaq.html Wikipedia

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