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5 U. St. Thomas J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 135 (2010-2011)
The Armenian Genocide: Review of Its Historical, Political, and Legal Aspects

handle is hein.journals/tjlpp5 and id is 137 raw text is: THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: REVIEW OF ITS HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, AND LEGAL ASPECTS VAHAKN N. DADRIAN INTRODUCTION During World War I, the authorities of the Turkish Ottoman Empire carried out one of the largest genocides in world history, destroying huge portions of its minority Armenian population. That genocide followed decades of persecution, punctuated by two similar but smaller rounds of massacres in the 1894-96 and 1909 periods, which claimed two hundred thousand Armenian lives. In all, over one million Armenians were put to death during World War I. Adding to this figure are the several hundred thousand Armenians who perished in the course of the Turkish attempt to extend the genocide to Russian Armenia in the Transcaucus during the spring and summer of 1918, as well as in the fall of 1920 when Ankara's fledgling government ordered General Karabekir's army to physically annihilate Armenia. The European Powers, who defeated the Turks time and again on the battlefield, were unable or unwilling to prevent this mass murder.1 Of even more consequence, they failed to secure punishment of the perpetrators in the aftermath of the war, despite the fact that they had publicly committed to doing so. The events of that time have subsequently slipped into the shadows of world history, thus acquiring the imagery of the Forgotten Genocide. To this day, Turkey denies the genocidal intent of these massacres. Such a scale of perpetration, at the very least, warrants a documentary exposure and examination. The results may yet impel the civilized world to show a greater concern for the depth of the anguish that has been tormenting Armenians for generations. It may even move the more enlightened segment of the population of modem Turkey to face the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide and try to come to terms with it. Over the past eighty years, the Armenian nation has struggled to bring 1. The terms Ottomans and Turks are used interchangeably given the historical interconnections and interplays.

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