Why is the Armenian Genocide important to study today?
After all, it happened almost 95 years ago. A: Well, the Armenian Genocide is the template for all genocide to follow in the modern era. It began what you might call the age of modern genocide. It was the first instance in which a nation state used its military, bureaucracy, and technology to exterminate a target group of people in a concentrated period of time. More than a million people were killed in a year. Hitler was inspired by the Armenian Genocide; he saw you could get rid of a hated ethnic group that way, and he said in August 1939, “Who today, after all, speaks of the annihilation of theArmenians?” Secondly, Raphael Lemkin, the man who developed the concept of genocide, did so in large part on the basis of what happened to the Armenians in 1915. The Armenian Genocide is part of the genesis of the very word. Third, the Turkish government’s continuous denial of the genocide is a dangerous example for those who would commit genocide today. Q:Why does the Turkish government deny
