![]() Holocaust Remembrance Day takes place this month every year, as do commemorations for genocides in Cambodia, Iraqi Kurdistan, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.įor much of the 20th century, commemorations of mass killings and genocide have focused on remembering the dead as victims and condemning the perpetrators.īut recent research has taken a broader view, recognizing that mass violence takes place because of many complex factors. ![]() During that period, Greek, Assyrian and Yezidi communities were also massacred and forced to flee into exile.Īpril is also Genocide Awareness Month. Most ended up in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Russia, Europe and the Americas. Modern scholars estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Turkish government, and around 800,000 to 1.2 million were deported during World War I. That was the date in 1915 when hundreds of Armenian community leaders were arrested by the government of the Ottoman Empire in the capital Constantinople, now known as Istanbul.Īt the time, Armenians lived throughout what is modern-day Turkey. ![]() ![]() The anniversary of the Armenian Genocide is marked every year on April 24. ![]()
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