Armenian Genocide

Why was the Armenian Genocide Forgotten? GENOCIDE By definition genocide is the organized killing of a people for the express purpose of putting an end to their collective existence (Webster’s dictionary). As a rule, the organizing agent is the nation, the victim population is a domestic minority, and the end result is the near total death of a society. The Armenian genocide generally conforms to this simple definition. FORGOTTEN The Armenian genocide is a …

…was when one man stated something along the lines of “We should have killed all the Armenians when we had the chance.” Hitler himself felt confident enough in the world’s selective memory to be quoted at a meeting of his SS units (his personal murderous secret police). At this meeting he ordered his men “to kill without pity, men, women, and children for who,” he asked, “remembers now the massacres of the Armenians”(Vahatai 89).