REMEMBERING AND UNDERSTANDING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

by Rouben Paul Adalian

How did the Genocide of the Armenians by Ottoman Turkey happen? Why were the Armenians selected for annihilation? Why did a whole nation succumb to such a fate? Why did the Turkish state resort to such a policy? Why has the world remained silent about the first genocide of the twentieth century? These are some of the questions that have been asked and which must be answered in order to understand the enduring legacy of a tragedy that has come to define the modern identity of an ancient people

Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (2010)