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Armenian genocide



  • The Armenian ‘Genocide’: This is What Happened in 1915

    The Polish Jewish Lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" in part after losing 49 family members to the Holocaust. But he was also motivated by his earlier study of the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire. 



  • ‘Sherlock Holmes of Armenian Genocide’ Uncovers Lost Evidence

    Taner Akcam, a Turkish historian at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., who has studied the genocide for decades by piecing together documents from around the world to establish state complicity in the killings, says he has unearthed an original telegram that confirms authorities knew what was happening.



  • America and the Armenian Genocide

    by Steven Cromack

    As in 1915, the American government still struggles to balance moral leadership with political pragmatism.



  • In Denial

    by Atom Egoyan

    The Armenian genocide, a century later