https://padlet.com/mckenna_bremner/djg0myzgp0psi582 Made with mirth en-us 2021-01-19 00:49:44 UTC 2023-06-03 16:16:32 UTC hello@padlet.com mckenna_bremner https://padlet.com/mckenna_bremner/djg0myzgp0psi582/wish/1099326315 "The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. "]]> 2021-01-19 00:50:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mckenna_bremner/djg0myzgp0psi582/wish/1099326315 mckenna_bremner https://padlet.com/mckenna_bremner/djg0myzgp0psi582/wish/1099349543 "On April 24, 1915, the Armenian genocide began. That day, the Turkish government arrested and executed several hundred Armenian intellectuals."]]> 2021-01-19 01:09:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mckenna_bremner/djg0myzgp0psi582/wish/1099349543 mckenna_bremner https://padlet.com/mckenna_bremner/djg0myzgp0psi582/wish/1108064524 "After that, ordinary Armenians were turned out of their homes and sent on death marches through the Mesopotamian desert without food or water. Frequently, the marchers were stripped naked and forced to walk under the scorching sun until they dropped dead. People who stopped to rest were shot."

]]> 2021-01-20 23:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mckenna_bremner/djg0myzgp0psi582/wish/1108064524 mckenna_bremner https://padlet.com/mckenna_bremner/djg0myzgp0psi582/wish/1108067738 "At the same time, the Young Turks created a “Special Organization,” which in turn organized “killing squads” or “butcher battalions” to carry out, as one officer put it, “the liquidation of the Christian elements.” These killing squads were often made up of murderers and other ex-convicts. They drowned people in rivers, threw them off cliffs, crucified them and burned them alive. In short order, the Turkish countryside was littered with Armenian corpses."

]]> 2021-01-21 00:00:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mckenna_bremner/djg0myzgp0psi582/wish/1108067738 mckenna_bremner https://padlet.com/mckenna_bremner/djg0myzgp0psi582/wish/1108077363 "Records show that during this “Turkification” campaign, government squads also kidnapped children, converted them to Islam and gave them to Turkish families. In some places, they raped women and forced them to join Turkish “harems” or serve as slaves. Muslim families moved into the homes of deported Armenians and seized their property."]]> 2021-01-21 00:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mckenna_bremner/djg0myzgp0psi582/wish/1108077363 mckenna_bremner https://padlet.com/mckenna_bremner/djg0myzgp0psi582/wish/1108209761 "Though reports vary, most sources agree that there were about 2 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the time of the massacre. In 1922, when the genocide was over, there were just 388,000 Armenians remaining in the Ottoman Empire."]]> 2021-01-21 01:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mckenna_bremner/djg0myzgp0psi582/wish/1108209761 mckenna_bremner https://padlet.com/mckenna_bremner/djg0myzgp0psi582/wish/1108214910 2021-01-21 01:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mckenna_bremner/djg0myzgp0psi582/wish/1108214910