The Forgotten Holocaust of 1915.

When HOLOCAUST. DAY. comes around how many in the west remember the systematic extinction of  1.5  million Armenians by the OTTOMAN EMPIRE in 1915?  I hazard that there are very few and that in our schools the subject is neglected. Their students should know that the term, "holocaust"
 was first used by a historian to describe the terrible tragedy that happened to the Armenians

Location	Ottoman Empire Republic of Turkey
Date	1914–1923[note 1]
Target	Armenianpopulation
Attack type	Deportation, genocide, mass murder, starvation

The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported from Constantinople (now Istanbul) to the region of Ankara 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders, the majority of whom were eventually murdered. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases—the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian Desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre.^[Other ethnic groups were similarly targeted for extermination in the Assyrian genocide and the Greek genocide, and their treatment is considered by some historians to be part of the same genocidal policy.Most Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide

  Vladimir Putin is a regular attendee at the annual memorial service as are other world signatories. The USA and EU leaders attend but the British are disgustingly notable by their absence.

   

Shame on the hypocrites who shout “anti semitic” at anybody who does not toe the lines and the Jewish MPs who attack Jeremy Corby are a politically motivated rabble.