[DarkRainbow]

The Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, traditionally among Armenians, as the Great Crime was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects from their historic homeland in the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey.

It took place during and after World War I and was implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and forced labor, and the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches to the Syrian Desert. The total number of people killed as a result has been estimated at between 1 and 1.5 million.

The Assyrians, the Greeks and other minority groups were similarly targeted for extermination by the Ottoman government, and their treatment is considered by many historians to be part of the same genocidal policy.

[Sharon]

[ChemJoe]

Never seen these ones before. Thanks!

[LadyCPlum]

You can thank Talet Pasha for all of this.

[PwnageDelux]

Just a few years ago I found out I have a large % of Armenian blood in me, and even more recently discovered this genocide as well.

Talk about blowing your mind!

[LadyCPlum]

I think the second picture is actually from Dachau...part of the medical experimentation they did there.

[wilcox009]

Now imagaine if each one of those people had 2 kids and they had two kids and the kids of the two kids had two kids and those two kids had two kids

[Spiffyfable]

To much work for me to handle

[petedeamon]

Man's inhumanity to man.

[blancadon]