What exactly is the Armenian Genocide?
April 24, 1915, the Turks (Ottoman Government) killed over 1.5 million innocent Armenians.
The starting date was on April 24 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported from Constantinople (now Istanbul) all the way to Ankara.
In the 1870’s or around that time the Turks had already started to make the Armenian women and children walk and they started to kill the men and torture them. The Turkish people came and rounded up in front of people’s houses asked if they can talk to the father of each family. Instead of talking to the father they would slit their throats in front of the father’s family, they would break into the people’s houses, brake glasses, make the house a mess, take the fathers, and leave or beat up the women and children.
Another terrible thing they did the the them was round up all of the fathers and the grandpas make them go on their knees and the Turks would take a bat and hit them in the stomach and kill them. They would kill the men one by one, put them against the wall, and have Turkish soldiers line up with guns and shoot at the same time and kill the men. The women and children were left, clueless not knowing anything.
Once they finished that terrible crime, they took the women and children to walk, all the way from Armenia to Syria (if you look on the map it is 791 km from Armenia.)
The Armenians were very wealthy and had amazing jobs, so the Turks were skeptical. Then they started to get really mad. Keep in mind that the Armenians used to work in Turkey and with some of the Turks.
Some people tried to run off but got caught and put into more torture, some of the people who ran got away with it. The men died the women children and grandparents had to walk, walk for many many days. All the way to Syria.
“Ottoman rulers ordered that all Armenians be expelled from their homes in areas outside of war zones. The Armenian men, women, and children were then lined up and made to walk in convoys of tens of thousands toward the Syrian desert.” said by Rouben Paul Adalian, a man whose a Dictator of the Armenian National Institute in Washington, D.C.
I want to tell you something else that happened in the genocide with one of my family members. My grandpa's moms mom was in the Armenian Genocide, she lost her father, she lost her husband and she was pregnant. She was one of those million people walking to Syria, but even worse she was pregnant. She gave birth in the desert, to her first child. After a while, that baby died and she had to bury her own child with her bare hands. Then a couple of months later she found another baby, abandoned, on the side of the street. She picked the baby up walked with her for who knows how many miles. Then, the baby died. She again buried the baby with her bare hands. She survived the genocide. She had my great grandma Lydia, unfortunately, she isn’t here with us, but she told us all she knew about the genocide. We have it on video.
Another story, my grandma's dads dad, he was also in the genocide. But he worked with the Turks way before it started. He lived in Armenia but he worked in Turkey. His good friend during the genocide helped him. Told him if he hid up in the tree he would bring him food and water every day. But sooner or later the Turks found out. They took my great grandpa down from the tree, made him go down on both knees, hands behind his back. Sat there for many days. Sooner or later his wife was wondering where her husband went. He also wanted to see his wife and the Turkish soldier said you can see your wife, but then he killed him took his clothes and one of the soldiers put his clothes on called my great grandpa wife, what his wife saw was terrible. One of the soldiers took the husbands clothes, put them on and danced around in it.
They did horrible things to my family, and to others. The Turks killed not only the Armenians but Assyrians (750,000 people) and the Greeks (950,00). I will tell you some stuff that I know about the Genocide myself. On April 24 of 2015 remarked the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, friends, and family went to Chicago to protest. Over 150 people went, maybe more. We got on the news and if you search up 100th-anniversary Armenian genocide in Chicago we will pop up. Every year we go to the same place and at least over 70 people show up, for the Turks only 10 or more. Another thing about it was when the Turks wanted to kill the Armenians it was mainly because all the Armenians were rich, had good jobs, and they had families. So they wanted to kill us and not have any Armenians left. So some guy wrote ways to kill an Armenian, told his fellow soldiers and they went to go kill them. We have evidence of the papers. Almost every Armenian song is about the genocide and that person's tragic story.
Still, the Turks deny the massacre that they did to the Armenians till this day. They go to high schools and colleges and pay them so they don’t tell the story to the students. But there are still Armenian students who make presentations and present to the students. Like what my sister did for the eighth graders, and what I am doing is telling you about what they did, just for people to recognize. They wanted to ge us out but we are still here.
There is one movie called "The Promise" which is about the Armenian Genocide. When the movie first came out the Turks did not want to people to watch the movie so they would buy a bunch of tickets so a bunch of people that wanted to see the movie wouldn’t be able to buy any tickets because people thought that the movie was packed and there was no room. But it was completely empty, no one showed up. They gave the producers a bunch of money so they don’t air it on TV but they didn’t take the money.
April 24, 1915, the Turks (Ottoman Government) killed over 1.5 million innocent Armenians.
The starting date was on April 24 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported from Constantinople (now Istanbul) all the way to Ankara.
In the 1870’s or around that time the Turks had already started to make the Armenian women and children walk and they started to kill the men and torture them. The Turkish people came and rounded up in front of people’s houses asked if they can talk to the father of each family. Instead of talking to the father they would slit their throats in front of the father’s family, they would break into the people’s houses, brake glasses, make the house a mess, take the fathers, and leave or beat up the women and children.
Another terrible thing they did the the them was round up all of the fathers and the grandpas make them go on their knees and the Turks would take a bat and hit them in the stomach and kill them. They would kill the men one by one, put them against the wall, and have Turkish soldiers line up with guns and shoot at the same time and kill the men. The women and children were left, clueless not knowing anything.
Once they finished that terrible crime, they took the women and children to walk, all the way from Armenia to Syria (if you look on the map it is 791 km from Armenia.)
The Armenians were very wealthy and had amazing jobs, so the Turks were skeptical. Then they started to get really mad. Keep in mind that the Armenians used to work in Turkey and with some of the Turks.
Some people tried to run off but got caught and put into more torture, some of the people who ran got away with it. The men died the women children and grandparents had to walk, walk for many many days. All the way to Syria.
“Ottoman rulers ordered that all Armenians be expelled from their homes in areas outside of war zones. The Armenian men, women, and children were then lined up and made to walk in convoys of tens of thousands toward the Syrian desert.” said by Rouben Paul Adalian, a man whose a Dictator of the Armenian National Institute in Washington, D.C.
I want to tell you something else that happened in the genocide with one of my family members. My grandpa's moms mom was in the Armenian Genocide, she lost her father, she lost her husband and she was pregnant. She was one of those million people walking to Syria, but even worse she was pregnant. She gave birth in the desert, to her first child. After a while, that baby died and she had to bury her own child with her bare hands. Then a couple of months later she found another baby, abandoned, on the side of the street. She picked the baby up walked with her for who knows how many miles. Then, the baby died. She again buried the baby with her bare hands. She survived the genocide. She had my great grandma Lydia, unfortunately, she isn’t here with us, but she told us all she knew about the genocide. We have it on video.
Another story, my grandma's dads dad, he was also in the genocide. But he worked with the Turks way before it started. He lived in Armenia but he worked in Turkey. His good friend during the genocide helped him. Told him if he hid up in the tree he would bring him food and water every day. But sooner or later the Turks found out. They took my great grandpa down from the tree, made him go down on both knees, hands behind his back. Sat there for many days. Sooner or later his wife was wondering where her husband went. He also wanted to see his wife and the Turkish soldier said you can see your wife, but then he killed him took his clothes and one of the soldiers put his clothes on called my great grandpa wife, what his wife saw was terrible. One of the soldiers took the husbands clothes, put them on and danced around in it.
They did horrible things to my family, and to others. The Turks killed not only the Armenians but Assyrians (750,000 people) and the Greeks (950,00). I will tell you some stuff that I know about the Genocide myself. On April 24 of 2015 remarked the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, friends, and family went to Chicago to protest. Over 150 people went, maybe more. We got on the news and if you search up 100th-anniversary Armenian genocide in Chicago we will pop up. Every year we go to the same place and at least over 70 people show up, for the Turks only 10 or more. Another thing about it was when the Turks wanted to kill the Armenians it was mainly because all the Armenians were rich, had good jobs, and they had families. So they wanted to kill us and not have any Armenians left. So some guy wrote ways to kill an Armenian, told his fellow soldiers and they went to go kill them. We have evidence of the papers. Almost every Armenian song is about the genocide and that person's tragic story.
Still, the Turks deny the massacre that they did to the Armenians till this day. They go to high schools and colleges and pay them so they don’t tell the story to the students. But there are still Armenian students who make presentations and present to the students. Like what my sister did for the eighth graders, and what I am doing is telling you about what they did, just for people to recognize. They wanted to ge us out but we are still here.
There is one movie called "The Promise" which is about the Armenian Genocide. When the movie first came out the Turks did not want to people to watch the movie so they would buy a bunch of tickets so a bunch of people that wanted to see the movie wouldn’t be able to buy any tickets because people thought that the movie was packed and there was no room. But it was completely empty, no one showed up. They gave the producers a bunch of money so they don’t air it on TV but they didn’t take the money.