The "Armenian Genocide" is fabricated atrocity propaganda meant to manufacture consent for regime change against a historical opponent to imperialist power. It reflects deep seated white fears of a non-white "other" (always an unreasonable, barbaric savage who filled with lust) that wants to is less than human and must be killed to "protect" blonde haired blue eyed white women.
First, I know this is bait, second calling the Ottoman Empire, or any involved in its governance, historical opponents to Imperialist power, is fucking hilarious.
When World War I began, the Ottoman Empire allied itself with Austria-Hungary and Germany as part of the Central Powers.
While the world was focused on battle in Europe, the Ottoman Empire, or rather, the Young Turks, began a systematic campaign to eliminate the Armenian people within its borders.
Ottoman authorities created a propaganda campaign claiming that the Armenians were a threat to national security, in part because of some Armenians’ support of Russia in the ongoing World War.
Because most Turks were illiterate, the anti-Armenian propaganda was primarily disseminated in the sermons of Muslim mullahs and by town criers, who labeled Armenians as spies, infidels, and traitors.
Armenian leaders and intellectuals were arrested, tortured, and killed.
The 40'000 Armenians serving in the military had their weapons confiscated and were forced into hard labor, many died as a result of the brutal living and working conditions.
Armenians’ property was confiscated, men were arrested and killed in mass shootings outside their towns and villages.
Women, children, and elderly were removed from their homes and forced to march hundreds of miles without food or water to the desert of modern-day Syria.
Hundreds of thousands of people died on these forced marches and those who survived were put into concentration camps.
The Turkish government created special mobile units, called the ‘Special Organization,’ which were comprised of criminals, to raid homes, kill villagers, and rape girls and women.
Many women were kidnapped into a life of sex slavery, and it is estimated that tens of thousands of children were abducted into Muslim families and forcibly converted to Islam.
Hundreds of eyewitnesses, including government representatives of the United States, Germany, and Austria-Hungary, recorded and documented the state-sponsored massacres.
Many foreign officials spoke out against the atrocities, including Pope Benedict XV, but claims were rejected and denied by the Ottoman administration.
The massacres continued under the cover of World War I until the Ottoman Empire collapsed on October 30, 1918.
Although most of the killings took place during World War I, the violence continued until 1923, when virtually all Armenians had been eliminated.
Turkey’s new leader, Mustafa Kemal, expelled all of the remaining Armenians, as well as Greeks and Assyrians.
Despite widespread international awareness of these atrocities, an armed intervention to stop the genocide never occurred.
Funny part is, Leftists support the Turks and not the Armenians, despite Turks being 11th century invaders, and Armenians being indigenous to the region, having lived in Anatolia since the Bronze Age, alongside the Greeks.
Now, if this wasn't bait, I'm sorry you are historically illiterate.
