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Armenian Genocide Reflection

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Loud bullets sound, half and completely destructed building, and dead buddies all over the place. That was the last scene I remember while leaving Aleppo in late 2012. With that start let me introduce myself, I'm Vrej George Dawli Khanjian, this “simple” name reflect my identity. You Know that I grow up in Syria because when people ask me how are you, I answer: compared to who. You know I'm Armenian simply because I learned the meaning of the word genocide at six years old when my father explained that all my family members died in the Armenian genocide. You know I was born in America because I believe in the great values that were established by legendary figures like MLK who advocated for social and economic equality before during and after the March on Washington. …show more content…

Fear: and I say it with courage, rubbed the sleep from my eyes and replaced it with tears thinking of destiny of my family and friend at home. Sadness, and I say it with a big smile, occupied my soil and stole the life happiness. Imagination: dreaming for bright future where peace trumps war, where education eliminates ignorance, where people don’t have to fight for peace. Hope is the most expensive thing that the University of Michigan gave me, with its all opportunities, scholarships, research, leadership, study abroad and fascinating

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“It is generally not known in the world that, in the years preceding 1916, there was a concerted effort to eliminate all the Armenian people, probably one of the greatest tragedies that ever befell any group. And there weren’t any Nuremberg trials”(Carter, 1987). Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States, said this quote at the White House reception honoring Armenian Americans in May of 1978. It shows how little is known about the Armenian Genocide and that the survivors never received closure like the Holocaust survivors did with the Nuremberg Trials. During the Armenian Genocide, which lasted from 1915 until 1916, 1.2 million Armenians were brutally murdered.

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The Armenian Genocide caused generations of pain and loss of the rich heritage of the Armenians. Not only did the genocide cause major human losses, but also caused a major psychological and moral blow at the attempt to exterminate the Armenian nation from the root. The Armenian Genocide resulted with around 1.5 million Armenians massacred, with only around half a million surviving the genocide. The loss of family, friends and the Armenian community, the genocide had a staggering blow on the Armenian race. The survivors escaped with merely their lives and the horrid memories of the cruel and inhumane nature of the Young Turks.

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Armenian genocide is known to be ethnic conflict between Muslims and Christians. The extermination of Christians were necessary because Armenian were a threat to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The essay will present the true reality of this case and why it happened. The essay answers the research question: How do outsider actor respond and influence the case? The arguments that are presented: when outsiders act as bystanders it results into support, outsiders and politicians help each other to fulfill their political interests, outsiders have higher chance of influencing when the outsider has integrated into the society.

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