1. GENOCIDE

2. INDEX Definition of Genocide Historical Background Armenian Genocide
Defendant vs. Opponent

3. Definition of Genocide
The term “genocide” did not exist before 1944.
In 1944, Raphael Lemkin sought to describe Nazi policies of systematic murder.
He combined geno- which came from Greek word with –cide which came from Latin word for killing.

4. General Assembly Resolution 260A (III) Article 2
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the
group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or
in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

5. Historical Background
The Holocaust ( )
The Stalinist Era in the USSR ( )
The Killing Fields of Cambodia ( )
The Rwandan Massacre (1994)
The Bosnian Genocide ( )

6. Holocaust (1939-1945) Done by Hitler against Jews
Approximately 7 million
Final solution to the Jewish question

7. Two German Jewish families at a gathering before the war
Two German Jewish families at a gathering before the war. Only two people in this group survived the Holocaust.

8. The Stalinist Era in the USSR (1929-1953)
Nearly 7 million people got killed
Known as ‘’Holodomor’’
Struggle for independence

9. The Killing Fields of Cambodia (1975-1978)
Nearly 20% of Cambodia’s population died
Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot
In order to purification of the populace

10. The Rwandan Massacre (1994)
Approximately 800,000 people dead
Ethnic tensions between Hutus vs. Tutsis
French intervention

11. The Bosnian Genocide (1992-1995)
Nearly 100,000 people died
Struggle for independence
Serbians killed Bosnian Muslims

12. Bosnian Genocide
Bosnia-Herzegovina composed of three main ethnic groups : Bosniak, Serbs and Croat, as well as Yugoslav.
Serbs targeted Bosniak and Crotian civilians which known as “ethnic cleansing”.
Largest massacre in Europe since the Holocaust.

13. So-called
Armenian Genocide
1915

14. Started in 1915 when Ottoman authorities arrested some 250 Armenian leaders in Istanbul
Estimated death was between 1 - 1,5 million
Ottomans forced Armenians to deports without food and water
During that deports Ottomans raped, massacred and robbed the Armenians

15. The Armenian Genocide
Two different views
Defendant
Opponent

16. DEFENDANT

17. The countries who recognized the Armenian Genocide
██ The countries who partly recognized

18. World Council of Churches Human Rights Association (Turkey)
The Organizations who recognized the Armenian Genocide
European Parliament
Council of Europe
World Council of Churches
Human Rights Association (Turkey)

19. Resolution in 1987 by European Parliament

20. Genocide Convention
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide – 1948
Ethiopia was the first – 1949
Number of the member state 140
Turkey became member on July 31, 1950

21. Orhan Pamuk He also recognized the Armenian Genocide
He was forced to flee abroad
In Frankfurt, he said that he had to break his nation’s biggest taboo

22. OPPONENT

23. In Switzerland, it is crime to deny Armenian Genocide
As an example, the leader of IP D. Perinçek was prosecuted by Swiss government, in 2005

24. Opponent Turkey advocate that it was not a genocide Azerbaijan Denmark
Britain – just recognized as massacre
Bulgaria
Israel

25. Stanford Shaw Worked on Armenian Genocide
‘’There is no Armenian Genocide’’
Threatened by Armenians
Sabotaged by Armenians

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