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They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else
- A History of the Armenian Genocide
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
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Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the 20th century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent - more than 1,000,000 people. A century later, the Armenian genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating Turkish and Armenian versions of events. In this definitive narrative history, Ronald Suny cuts through nationalist myths, propaganda, and denial to provide an unmatched account of when, how, and why the atrocities of 1915-1916 were committed.
As it lost territory during the war, the Ottoman Empire was becoming a more homogenous Turkic-Muslim state, but it still contained large non-Muslim communities, including the Christian Armenians. The Young Turk leaders of the empire believed that the Armenians were internal enemies secretly allied to Russia and plotting to win an independent state. Suny shows that the great majority of Armenians were in truth loyal subjects who wanted to remain in the empire. But the Young Turks, steeped in imperial anxiety and anti-Armenian bias, became convinced that the survival of the state depended on the elimination of the Armenians. Suny is the first to explore the psychological factors as well as the international and domestic events that helped lead to genocide.
Drawing on archival documents and eyewitness accounts, this is an unforgettable chronicle of a cataclysm that set a tragic pattern for a century of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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- 17-04-18
interesting but too in-depth for most
it was Interesting to begin with but found finishing abit of a slog. it goes into more detail then the average person wants, repeating similar points over and over, it's still worth a read but hardly rivetting!
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- 07-06-21
There was no genocide & NO they didn't deserve it.
Neither did the 0.5 million Turkish soldiers who died from a Typhus epidemic which swept threw and decimated the Anatolian population, soldiers who had access to the best healthcare and nutrition available, a wet sponge and barley soup, if you are lucky. This was in addition to the war being waged on multiple fronts against more than one state.
The Brits, French and Russians, fighting for control over my ancestors' homeland, for thousands of years, including what would later become Syria, should've done more for their Christian Armenians, like organise a mass vaccination programme or provide food aid to sustain hundreds of thousands who starved, something!
Even the first president of Armenia, Hovhannes Kajaznuni, villifed by his own nation as a traitor, a 'davachan', for simply speaking the truth, which you won't find in this book, watched hundreds of thousands of Armenians, who fled to what is today Armenia, die from starvation and disease.
Sorry but we were busy trying to prevent a rerun of the brutal Srebenitsa like massacres, rapes and forced displacement, which occurred in the Balkans and the North Caucasus before the war started, within our very homeland. Yes I'm a Turk, my ancestors have lived in Anatolia for thousands of years and no we are not from Central Asia, thank you very much Ronald; we are the Hittites, the Hellenised Anatolian Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Ottomans.
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