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I was so surprised to find out how much similarities there are between the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust. Both had a final solution, with the Armenian being devised at a Young Turks Conference in 1911, and the Holocaust at the Wannsee Conference in 1942. The only thing different about the Tutsi in Rwanda, is that is was not a final solution dictated by a conference, but a massacre, like what happened to the Armenians from 1894 to 1896, and the Jews with the pogroms before World War II.
Tim,
The irony is that not only was the Armenian Genocide similar but many scholars consider it a blue print for the Holocaust.. Also the very word GENOCIDE was coined by Rafael Lemkin using both cases as his reference to him inventing the very word.
The saddest part is, unlike other genocide, the culprits the Armenian Genocide and their decedents continue to use every resource available to deny that the Armenian Genocide ever took place.. And they are not alone as the US State department, The British government and even the Israeli governmnet deliberately help in this denial and coverup..
That is where grassroots action is going to be the great determining factor on this, because the Armenian Genocide has been so thoroughly documented. I have seen archive after archive in Washington, D.C., London, and Jerusalem. In London, it was Arnold Toynbee with White Hall, who wrote volumes upon volumes on the subject. In the United States, it has been the Ford Foundation that provided the grants for it. When I was on the advisory council of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, I recommended that it included the Armenian Genocide in the museum, and it did. Maybe official government recognition has not happened yet, but it does have allies. (No pun intended, they knew about it when it first started in 1915.)