On this episode of the Sofa King Podcast, we talk about one of the biggest war crimes in modern history, the Armenian Genocide. Through a systematic effort, the Ottoman Empire ruled by the Young Turks killed upwards of 1.5 million Armenian Christians through murder, forced marches, hunger, and disease. This was during World War One, and the empire thought Armenia (part of their empire) was going to side with Russia while everyone else sided with Germany.

The state rounded up the men first and killed them village by village. The Turks then sent the women on death marches into the Syrian desert that lasted weeks or months. They were raped, beaten, and often had to watch their family and children be murdered. Tens of thousands were forced to live with new men (some willingly, sometimes the murderer of their family) and turn to Islam and have children. Those were the lucky ones, if such a thing can said to exist.

So what brought this Armenian Genocide on? How many survived? Who were members of a Butcher Brigade? When did the US Government finally recognize this genocide? Listen, laugh, learn.

 

Visit Our Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-armenian-genocide-1915-16-overview

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/timestopics/topics_armeniangenocide.html

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/armenian-genocide

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/introducing-armenian-genocide

http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/armenian_genocide.php

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/24/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-armenian-remembrance-day/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nemesis