A powerful poem "Definitions" that confronts the Armenian Genocide of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during WW1 often called the first genocide of the 20th century. Memory, truth, and recognition matter.
A powerful poem "Definitions" that confronts the Armenian Genocide of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during WW1 often called the first genocide of the 20th century. Memory, truth, and recognition matter.
ARMENIAN CHILDREN LIE IN THE STREET OF AN UNIDENTIFIED TOWN
Photograph taken by Armin T. Wegner.
Wegner served as a nurse with the German Sanitary Corps. In 1915-16, Wegner traveled throughout Ottoman Empire and documented atrocities carried out against Armenians.
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Turkey Border Reset Angers Armenians
Armenian orphans being forced to hold the image of Enver Pasha, the man who massacred their parents, is an act of insanity. Except in Turkey, where it is called heroism. Many Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian children were taken, Islamized, and assimilated after the genocide of 1915.
Today is #ArmenianGenocide Remembrance Day, marking the arrest and deportation of hundreds of Armenian leaders and intellectuals in Constantinople on April 24th, 1915. Most were eventually killed.
Deportations and massacres of Armenians had already begun in other parts of the Ottoman Empire and would continue. One million Armenians were killed, many in concentration camps or on death marches.
I'm a descendent of Genocide survivors. Let their histories not be forgotten.

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