genocide

GENOCIDE
[|The ten stage of genocide]



Name: _________________________Block: _______ Date: ____________________ Template: Ten Stages of Genocide You have already done this - copy/paste your words || Example of this stage: Armenia || Summary of arguments - Turkish Rebuttal
 * Stage || Explanation in your Own Words
 * CLASSIFICATION || Cultural distinction to create “Us and Them” differences based on such things as ethnicity, race, and religion. It may create opinions that some are better than others. || For three thousand years, armenians were a thriving community that existed inside the vast religion of the middle east. ||
 * Symbolization || Gives name or other symbols such as”jews” “chinese” “american”or distinguish them by their skin color. Is really universal and do not necessarily result in genocide. || Christian armenians, armenia became the first nation to accept christianity as the state religion.The flourishing of literature,art,commerce and a unique style of architecture. ||
 * DISCRIMINATION || A group uses law, custom and political power to denied other’s power. || About forty thousand Armenian men were serving in the Turkish Army.In the fall and winter of 1914, all of their weapons were confiscated and they were put into slave labor battalions building roads or were used as human pack animals. ||
 * DEHUMANIZATION || One group denied the humanity of the other group.Members of that denied group treated like animals, insects or disease. || Armenians worked under brutal conditions they suffered a very high death rate and those who survived would soon be shot outright.However at that time no one is willing to stood up against the Armenians. ||
 * ORGANIZATION || Genocide is always organized, usually by the state, often using militias to provide deniability of state responsibility . || Three young turks took control of the government which are Mehmed Talaat,Ismail Enver and Ahmed Djemal and they have their own ambitious plans for the future of Turkey. They wanted unite all the Turks people in the entire region and expand the borders of Turkey.However Armenians had became a hinder of their ambitious plan. ||
 * POLARIZATION || extremists drive the group apart, hate groups broadcast polarizing propaganda.Laws may forbid intermarriage or social interaction. || With the rise of the young Turks new found “Turanism” christians armenians were tagged as infidels. Thus causing the hatred toward Armenians within the empire. ||
 * PREPARATION || National or perpetrator group leaders plan the final solution to the jewish, armenian,tutsi or other targeted group ”question”. || Children and women were in a death march heading south toward the syrian desert. and they were forced to leave their homeland ||
 * PERSECUTION || Victims are identified and separated out because of their ethnic or religious identity. Death lists are drawn up. || The three young Turks came up with the decision to annihilate the entire armenian population.The actual extermination orders were transmitted in coded telegrams to all provincial governors throughout Turkey. ||
 * EXTERMINATION || Begins and quickly become the mass killing legally called”genocide”They do not believe their victims was fully human. || There were mass arrests of Armenian men throughout the country by Turkish soldiers, police agents and bands of Turkish volunteers. Men were tied together with ropes in small groups then taken to the outskirts of their town and shot dead. ||
 * DENIAL || The final stage that lasts throughout and always follows a genocide.Try to buried the evidence and intimidate the witnesses that this does not happened. || After the end of WWI, the three young Turks resigned their position in the government and fled to Germany and the allies asked Germany to send the Young Turks back home for the trial however such requests were turned down, as a result the armenian activists located the young Turks and assassinated them. ||

The Armenian genocide starts off with depriving their power in the military at first, then step by step the Three young turks took control of the public and the armenians.After WWI, defeat of the germans including turkey leads to the downfall of the three young turks, they knew they are not going to get away from this matter thus they resigned and fled to Germany. At the end Armenian assassinated them, Armenian activists created a treaty stated that they would give armenians back their land.However turkish nationalism refused to accept the treaty and furthermore they expelled the remaining armenians including thousands of orphans.With no aid from allied powers the armenians soon collapsed. Turks were trying to destroy any evidence of the existence of the armenians, they demolished armenian culture heritage, artwork and architecture.

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