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Eyewitness sketch of the 1894 Sasun massacres. Traditionally the Ottoman millet system offered non-Muslims a subordinate but protected place in society. The nineteenth-century Tanzimat reforms abolished the protections that members of the Armenian millet had previously enjoyed, but did not change the popular perception that they were different and inferior. [17]
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.
The harshest measures were directed against the long persecuted Armenian community as its calls for civil reform and better treatment were ignored by the government. The Ottomans made no allowances for the victims on account of their age or gender, and as a result, they massacred all of the victims with brutal force.
Estimates of the number of Armenians who perished vary widely, with historians offering a range of about 700,000 to 1.2 million.
Turkish–Armenian War: September–December 1920 First Republic of Armenia: Turkish Nationalist forces: 60,000 [13] –198,000 [14] Sumgait pogrom: February 1988 Sumgayit, Soviet Azerbaijan: Azerbaijani mobs 26 (official) to 200 [15] (nonofficial sources) Kirovabad pogrom: November 1988 Kirovabad, Soviet Azerbaijan: Azerbaijani mobs
The three attorneys were Armenian Americans, part of a proud and active L.A. ethnic group of more than 200,000, and the genocide cases offered them an attractive combination of community service ...
With the breakout of the Syrian Civil War and subsequent rise of Daesh, Armenians, alongside Assyrians, Alawites and Shia Muslims, were some of the groups persecuted in areas occupied by Daesh militants. Armenian sites were targets of Daesh' infamous cultural destruction.
Reporters reviewed scores of court records in connection with cases brought against New York Life and AXA over unpaid life insurance benefits for victims of the Armenian genocide.