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Armin Theophil Wegner (October 16, 1886 – May 17, 1978) was a German soldier and medic in World War I, a prolific author, and a human rights activist. [2] Stationed in the Ottoman Empire during World War I, Wegner was a witness to the Armenian genocide and the photographs he took documenting the plight of the Armenians today "comprises the core of witness images of the Genocide."
[3] [4] When the refugees, including women and children, reached Deir ez-Zor, they cooked grass, ate dead birds, [5] and although there was a cave near a place called Deir ez-Zor that was used at the end of one march to store prisoners until they starved, no "camp" seems ever to have been planned for the Armenians.
Armenian–Tatar massacres: 1905–1907 Baku, Baku Governorate, Elizavetpol Governorate, Erivan Governorate, and Tiflis Governorate of the Russian Empire: Azerbaijani mobs and irregulars 500 [citation needed] Adana massacre: April 1909 Adana Vilayet and Aleppo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire: Muslim mobs 19,479 [3] –25,000 [4] Armenian genocide ...
The Armenian genocide [a] was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of others, primarily women and children.
Armenian War may refer to: Armenian-Parthian War, 87-85 BCE; Roman-Parthian War of 58-63 CE; Georgian-Armenian War, 1918; Armenian–Azerbaijani war (disambiguation ...
When the war broke out and Ottoman declaration of war on Russia, she was one of the only few Russian nationals to stay in the Ottoman Empire. In 1915, Büll witnessed the Armenian genocide in Cilicia and was instrumental in saving the lives of about two thousand Armenian children and women when Maraş was turned into "The City of Orphans".
The wall with images of fallen Armenian soldiers. According to Artsakhian President, mainly 18–20 year old soldiers fought in hostilities. [211] The Armenian authorities stated that 85 Armenian civilians were killed during the war, [c] while another 21 were missing. [57]
The Armenian revolutionary movement: the development of Armenian political parties through the 19th century. Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press. de Waal, Thomas (2003). Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-1945-9.