Amenian Genocide

      The Amenian Genocide

     The Amenian Genocide was caused by the "Young Turk" government of the Ottoman Empire during the coarse of time between 1915 and 1916. There were around two and a half million Amenians in the Ottoman empire, about one and a half million were killed. This was all caused by the Amenians on their land (called the Amenian plateau) becoming an obstacle to the Turkish speaking people unifing in their Turkish state and extending to Central Asia. WWI was the opportunitie when the Ottoman empire could exterminate all Amenians, leaving none to guard their nations in Western Turkey and Eastern Armenia. One of the most recognized days of this Genocide is the night of April 23-24, 1915. On this night there was a huge round-up and imprisonment of Armenian politicians, priests, scientists, lawyers, doctors and writers of the Ottoman Empire. Also on this night 5,000 of the poorest Armenians were butchered and killed right in the streets and inside their homes. However this genocide occured in a very organized fashion. First the Armenians in the army had their weapons taken and were placed in labor camps to only be killed. After this the political leaders and such were brought all together and then killed. All the other Armenians would be taken from their homes, told that they were being relocated, however had to march to concentration camps located in the deserts, leaving them to thristy and starving to death in the burning sunlight. Many were even killed just on the march there. To this day the Turkish government denies every bit that there was an Armenian genocide and that the Armenian people were only removed from their eastern "warzone".
         My opinion on the Amenian Genocide is that it was very unecessary. The Turkish government had absolutly no reason to kill such a innocent race of people. If this government wanted to be strictly only turkish speaking people why wouldn't they exclude the Amenians from their government and nations and make them have their own nation. The Turkish people then could expand their lands somewhere other then the Amenian lands, letting them expand their Turkish nation more allowable with the cause of war against a different country for land other then killing millions of innocent people.