Drapene ble begått av tyrkiske militære. Ofrene var ortodokskristne armenere. Historien om hva som egentlig skjedde er vel noe uklar, men man må vel regne med at det fantes muslimer i den tyrkiske hæren på den tiden.
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Historien er ganske klar på hva som skjedde den gangen, de slaktet armener fra 1892-1894 også.
By the beginning of the 20th century, Armenia's glory days were a distant memory. They had been absorbed by the Ottoman Empire and occupied a reduced territory located in what is now north-eastern Turkey. Still strongly
Christian, they enjoyed relative tolerance within the
Muslim Ottoman Empire. However, during the period between 1892 and 1894 The Armenians suffered a series of massacres instigated by the reigning Sultan Abdul Hamid II in which between 80,000 and 300,000 lost their lives.
With the outbreak of World War I and the threat of Russian invasion, the Ottomans began to suspect the loyalty of the Armenians and feared that they might actively support the Russians if an invasion occurred. To prevent this, the Ottomans devised a plan to eliminate the Armenians from their territory that resulted in one of the bloodiest, systematic massacres of the 20th century.
The Massacre of the Armenians, 1915
The killing of 1.5m Armenians by the Ottoman Turks during World War I remains one of the bloodiest and most contentious events of the 20th century, and has been called the first modern genocide.
In all, 25 concentration camps were set up in a systematic slaughter aimed at eradicating the Armenian people - classed as "vermin" by the Turks.
Winston Churchill described the massacres as an "administrative holocaust" and noted: "This crime was planned and executed for political reasons. The opportunity presented itself for clearing Turkish soil of a Christian race."
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The forgotten Holocaust: The Armenian massacre that inspired Hitler | Daily Mail Online
Men putt putt det var bare noen kristne, vesten har heller ikke kriget i Saudia Arabia, hvor mange minoriteter er det i det landet?
