It is also important to learn about the Armenian Genocide because historical events that happen outside of Europe are often marginalized in the writing of history. In a History Talk podcast about the politics of scholarship surrounding the Armenian Genocide with scholars of genocide, Dr. Ronald Grigor Suny said regarding why the Armenian Genocide is often forgotten in history books: "it happened far away from Europe. It happened during a time of war, as a kind of communication and knowledge that will eventually be understood during the time of the Holocaust was simply not available."

Natalie: Just a few days ago I was eating at a Japanese restaurant and saw a Korean food on the menu. I had a surprisingly strong reaction to it, which I attributed to what my grandmother had to go through because of Japan. Working on this project, I noticed the similarity: grandchildren feeling the crimes of a group against their grandparent's people. Thinking about how people remember or silence memories of the Armenian genocide has made me think about what I do and don't know about my grandmother's life, and wonder about how much the things I never explicitly learned still affect me.

Nika: The Balakian’s quote “When the past is behind you, keep it there” resonated with me a lot, as it made me think about how people often believe that if something happened in the past it should be brought up or spoken about today. I believe that a lot of people have a similar approach to historical events as well, as they sometimes tend to deliberately forget about injustices and traumatic events that happened in the past and avoid talking about them as it makes them uncomfortable. I believe that to a certain extent, this is the case with the victims of those unjust events too, as often they don’t want to reopen the old wounds as it is too painful.

These are deaths after the genocide itself. A death spree that keeps on killing

• Armenians kill Talaat and Cemal Pashas, Ottoman leaders during the genocide

• "nearly 50 people, many of them Turkish diplomats, killed, and the hundreds more injured, across the globe by the Armenian organization ASALA in the 1970s to protest Turkey’s continuing refusal to recognize the genocide"

• death threats against a Turkish author for mentioning the genocide

• assassination of Hrant Dink, organizer of a conference on the Armenian genocide

Christine Philliou, "The Armenian Genocide and the Politics Of Knowledge," Public Books, 2015.