Armenian Genocide

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crime against humanity ethnic cleansing genocide mass killing

The Armenian Genocide was the systematic mass killing and deportation of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I, widely recognized as one of the first modern genocides.

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Statements (73)
Predicate Object
instanceOf crime against humanity →
ethnic cleansing →
genocide →
mass killing →
causeOfDeath death marches →
disease →
exposure →
mass executions →
starvation →
commemoratedIn Armenia →
Diaspora Armenian communities →
deathTollRange 600000–1500000 →
deniedBy Azerbaijan →
Republic of Turkey →
describedAs first modern genocide →
documentedBy Ottoman archival records →
contemporary photographs →
foreign diplomats →
missionaries →
survivor testimonies →
endDate 1923 →
estimatedDeaths 1500000 →
600000 →
followedBy Assyrian genocide →
Greek genocide →
historicalDebate extent of premeditation →
responsibility of Ottoman leadership →
influenced Genocide Convention →
Raphael Lemkin’s concept of genocide →
keyFigure Djemal Pasha →
Enver Pasha →
Talaat Pasha →
legalInstrument Tehcir Law →
Temporary Law of Deportation →
location Anatolia →
Deir ez-Zor region →
Eastern Anatolia →
Ottoman Empire →
Syrian Desert →
mainCommemorationDay April 24 →
memorial Tsitsernakaberd →
memorialLocation Yerevan →
method concentration camps →
confiscation of property →
deportation →
forced marches →
mass shootings →
partOf persecution of Christians in the Ottoman Empire →
perpetratedBy Committee of Union and Progress →
Ottoman Empire →
Young Turks →
plannedBy Ottoman Interior Ministry →
precededBy Adana massacre →
Hamidian massacres →
recognizedAsGenocideBy Argentina →
Canada →
Cyprus →
European Parliament →
France →
Germany →
Greece →
Italy →
Pope Francis →
Russia →
United States →
result Armenian diaspora →
confiscation of Armenian property →
destruction of Armenian cultural heritage in Ottoman Empire →
startDate 1915-04-24 →
targetedGroup Armenians →
Ottoman Armenians →
timePeriod World War I →
late Ottoman Empire period →
Referenced by (4)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide ("Armenian genocide") →
coversEvent
The Promise (2016 film) →
depicts
Armenians →
genocide
Armenia →
historicalEvent
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