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1 day ago · The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced ...
1 day ago · The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute hosted a presentation featuring over 4,000 titles of materials received in recent years, as well as the latest three volumes and scientific periodicals of the “Memoirs of Armenian Genocide Survivors” series.
4 days ago · According to several experts who have spent time on the ground in Armenia, the Christian community in Nagorno-Karabakh is facing genocide. “The situation is extremely urgent and existential,” Robert Nicholson, president of the Catholic human rights group the Philos Project, said in June.
1 day ago · Over time, Gruner’s scholarly lens widened. He began investigating other instances of genocide and mass violence around the world. In his research, he noted brutal similarities, from the systematic discrimination and repressive policies against the Indigenous majority in postcolonial Bolivia or the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
5 days ago · Armenian genocide survivors were Armenians in the Ottoman Empire who survived the genocide of 1915. After the end of World War I, many tried to return home to the Ottoman rump state, which later became Turkey.
4 days ago · The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict [f] is an ethnic and territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, inhabited mostly by ethnic Armenians until 2023, and seven surrounding districts, inhabited mostly by Azerbaijanis until their expulsion during the 1990s.
4 days ago · Nagorno-Karabakh, region of southwestern Azerbaijan which until 2023 had a significant Armenian population. The region became a significant source of tension between Armenia and Azerbaijan after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
