The Genocide Against The Armenians 19151923 And The Relevance Of The 1948 Genocide Convention Alfred M De Zayas by Alfred M. De Zayas 9789953475158, 9953475156 instant download after payment.

The night of 24 April 1915 would mark the beginning of a tragic fate for the Armenian people. On this night, hundreds of Armenian political and intellectual leaders were arrested in Istanbul and assassinated, as the first stage of the first genocide of the twentieth century. Between 1915 and 1923, hundreds of thousands of Armenians would be systematically exterminated or deported; Armenian towns and villages would be erased from Ottoman geography; and every symbol of Armenian culture would be targeted for destruction. Most of the survivors would die of hunger or exhaustion during forced marches to exile.
As historian Nelida Boulgourdjian-Toufeksian documents: of the “2,100,000 Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1912, according to the Armenian Patriarch’s statistics inIstanbul, only 77,435 remained in 1927.”
Yet, these facts do not begin to sum up the depth and scope of the crimes committed against the Armenians.
The Genocide of 1915 was part of a long-term state policy that had its antecedents in the centrally planned massacre of over 200,000 Armenians in 1894-1896 by the troops of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. In the name of Turkish
nationalism, the government of the Young Turks, known as the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), implemented an official policy of genocide. Dr. Nazim, one of the ideologues of the CUP, stated in a closed session of the Central Committee in February 1915: “It is absolutely necessary to eliminate the Armenian people in its entirety, so that there is no further Armenian on this earth and the very concept of Armenia is extinguished.” The Ottoman state apparatus, including its military, intelligence services and administrative units, was the instrument of this crime