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Kyaram or Qyaram Sloyan (Armenian: Քյարամ Սլոյան; 27 April 1996 – 1/2 April 2016) was an Artsakh Defense Army soldier who was killed during the 2016 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes. After his death, he was beheaded, [1] [2] with videos and pictures showing Azerbaijani soldiers posing with his severed head posted on social networks.
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.
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."
Khachadour Paul Garabedian (Armenian: Խաչատուր Կարապետեան; August 25, 1836 – August 25, 1881) was an American officer in the United States Navy, considered the only soldier of Armenian heritage to have served in combat during the American Civil War.
An Armenian woman and her children who were refugees of the massacres and sought help from missionaries by walking great distances. The provisions for reform in the Armenian provinces embodied in Article 61 of the Treaty of Berlin (1878) were ultimately not enforced and were followed instead by further repression. On January 2, 1881, collective ...
The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labor, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert.
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 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]