Human Rights Violations Essay

Throughout history, there have been many examples where groups of people have been denied their human rights. Individuals, groups, and governments have attempted to end many of these human rights violations although they have not always been successful.

One event from history that can immediately be dissected from many other events that stripped humans of their basic rights is the deadly and horrible Holocaust which mainly took place in Germany during World War II and discriminated against the Jewish population. The German dictator at the time of WW2, Adolf Hitler, hated Jews and believed they were the reason for all the bad things happening to Germany such as the bad economy and the loss in WW1. The circumstances that led up to the Holocaust

The circumstances that led to this massacre was how the Armenian Empire was absorbed by the mighty Ottoman Empire in the 15th century. When this happened, every Armenian was now subject to be living under a Muslim-dominated empire; with this most Ottoman leaders were Muslim who saw Armenians as ‘infidels’ and believed that they didn’t deserve many rights. One right the Armenians got to keep was the right to have a religion; almost every Armenian was a Christian and even though they were subject to very little freedom they flourished in the Empire. The idea that the Armenians were more loyal to the predominantly Christian empire of Russia angered the Ottomans because they believed that the Armenians were not loyal and they would soon attempt to overtake the empire during its last stages of power. With this idea, the last emperor of the Ottoman Empire, Abdul Hamid II, started the genocide of the Armenians. Basic human rights the Armenians were denied was participation in the government, they paid discriminatory tax, and were subject to legal restrictions which denied them normal safeguards. Lastly, an action the weak Ottoman Empire took was the starvation of the Armenians, the brutal beatings, forceful place in concentration camps, and the terrible act of making the Armenians walk under the blazing sun naked until they dropped dead. Out of the 2 million Armenians