Armenian History and the Question of Genocide by M. Gunter

By M. Gunter

An research of the Turkish place in regards to the Armenian claims of genocide in the course of global conflict I and the continued debate over this issue, the writer bargains an equivalent exam of every side's historic place. The publication asks "what is genocide?" and illustrates that even supposing this can be a worthwhile suggestion to explain such evil occasions because the Jewish Holocaust in international warfare II and Rwanda within the Nineties, the time period has additionally been overused, misused, and consequently trivialized by way of many various teams trying to demonize their antagonists and win sympathetic approbation for them. the writer comprises the Armenians during this classification simply because, even though as many as 600,000 of them died in the course of international battle I, it used to be neither a premeditated coverage perpetrated via the Ottoman Turkish executive nor an occasion unilaterally applied with no reason. after all, on no account does this excuse the terrible excesses devoted by way of the Turks.

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