Armenian Genocide
...some sort of commonality whether it is race, nationality, political alignment, or perhaps culture. Simply put, genocide is the mass killing of a group of people. For many, the mere concept of genocide is impossible to rationalize in their own minds, let alone discuss amongst others with. As shocking as it is, all people must come to terms with the fact that genocide, as savage as it may be, is something that does in fact happen, and it’s horrors that come along with it were not taken out of a fiction book. Genocides are real and continue to still happen today; even the genocides that are long past will never be forgotten, as they continue to carry with them the aftermath they left behind that will never fade with time. Genocides have plagued history for hundreds if not thousands of years and will dejectedly plague the future until there is no one left to kill, and sadly the idea of genocide will be the last thought remembered. No genocide is worse than the next; they all destroy peace and harvest the good that does exist. The Armenian Genocide was a multitude of horrors triggered by the same quintessential human intolerance that catapult all such evil, and is still the cause of many heated debates in the countries of (but not limited to) Armenia and Turkey.
The Republic of Armenia, as it is officially known by, is a landlocked country that sees Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, and Azerbaijan to the south and east. Armenia’s religious roots date back to Christianity, with churches being found as early as the fourth century. Armenia is unique because during its early existence it was under either Turkic or Persian rule, with aspects of both cultures blending together in a resulting Armenia. Armenia has a unique alphabet despite its birth from the Indo-European languages. Armenia houses about three million people in roughly twelve-thousand...
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