The Armenian Genocide By Elie Wiesel

`“Elie Wiesel has said that denial is the final phase of genocide, a second killing.” (Atamian 23) And with that statement I must agree. The Armenians Genocide happened, that is a fact. 1.5 million Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Empire (Atamian 23). However, no one group is at fault yet, it is hard to place fulton a genocide that has not truly ended. Maybe the mass murder is over but Turkey has kept the genocide alive with delinal. Denial of a genocide that they did not start, but one they refuse to end as well. With this essay, I intend to expose the truth, in order to allow the end of this genocide.This ends now.

The large scale of death involved in this genocide makes the fact that to this day several people deny it ever happened,

The Ottoman Empire was truly the instigators of this genocide as the Turkish state did not really exist (Myers). However, the turkish state is guilty of denying this genocide. “ to this day, Turkey has denied that anything like this happened”(Zarauhi). In a way, the Turkish state is responsible for a genocide, a genocide of truth, and freedom of speech. “Turks grow up being taught in school, is that Armenians and Turks lived happily together for hundreds of years and then suddenly out of nowhere the Armenians, who were very wealthy and educated, decided to side with the Russians during World War I, thus forming a sort of fifth column within the poor and defenseless Ottoman Empire” (Atamian 23). Which, for anyone reading this article has been obviously proven untrue. When it comes to freedom of speech and opinion, it appears Turkey is not a fan based on the Turkish government's laws that make it is illegal for anyone residing in Turkey to refer to the Armenian genocide as a genocide or to admit it as true.While the murder of 1.5 million is on the hands of the late Ottoman Empire, the death of opinion and truth is at the fault of the Turkish state. This denial could easily be avoided. However, the Armenian genocide has a lot of variables when it comes to its

One that we can never quite get right, and often involves many more variables than we are aware of. If I must pick one variable, I would say this could have been prevented if it weren’t for religion. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for freedom of religion and I myself have religious beliefs. However, I can’t help but wonder how different that time period would have been without it. It is clear to see that the whole point in the genocide was that the rulers of the Ottoman empire felt that the Christian Armenians were traitors and were siding with the Russian during WW1 (World War 1 And The Armenian Genocide). It was because of their deep rooted Anti-Christian views it was easy for them to see them as traitors. Furthermore, loyalty was a very touchy subject during this era and when the “Ottoman authorities massacred populations viewed as potentially disloyal, leading some Armenians to take up arms in self-defense. When Russian troops invaded that April, some of these armed bands joined them. Reinforced in a suspicion that all Armenians were potential traitors,” (World War 1 And The Armenian Genocide) In all honesty however, this genocide can be summed up by saying in a time of war several leaders were looking to point fingers when the war was not going as planned, and by looking to the Christian Armenians, some saw it as killing two birds with one stone. But in reality, it was like killing 1.5 million with an