Event Videos — UCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
INTERNMENT AND DESTRUCTION: Concentration Camps During the Armenian Genocide
Providing an overview of the structure, administration, life, and resistance in concentration camps based on Armenian accounts, Ottoman archives, and western diplomatic records, Mouradian argues that this glaring manifestation of total war, one directed towards the empire’s very own Armenian subjects, constitutes an important moment of transition in the use internment as a weapon of annihilation.