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THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Suren Manukyan
American University of Armenia

 
"GENOCIDE" = génos ("race, people") + -cide ("act of
killing")

Genocide is intentional action to destroy a people (usually


defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) in
whole or in part.

Armenian genocide is the policy of systematic murder of the


civilian Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire in
1915-1923.
What is genocide studies?
 Why have you chosen this course to study?

Why should we learn the Armenian genocide?


Sahakian girls` collage, Konia, 1910.

Thank you!

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