The End of the Armenian Genocide and WWI

In your notebook draw a series of boxes on a page

Answer: How could the Armenian

Genocide have been stopped?

Were the Turks justified by killing the Armenian population?

Document your evidence in the top right box

Which bystander do you hold most accountable? Answer next box

What can the World do during WWI to stop the treatment of Armenians? Generate a strategy

I have another “bystander” quote for you

“I could see that [the Armenians’] well-known disloyalty to the Ottoman Government and the fact that the territory which they inhabited was within the zone of military operations constituted grounds more or less justifiable for compelling them to depart their homes.”

US Secretary of State Robert Lansing, Nov. 1916

Did the Turks commit genocide?• In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts

committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

• (a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

How did the post-WWI time period make an attempt to address genocide?

I have 14 Points

14 PointsPoint V.

Point XII.Point XIV.

1. Why were these points included?

2. How would these points stop the killing of Armenians and end the killing of innocent

people?

Treaty of Sevres1. How do the articles try

to save lives?2. What happens to the

Armenian people?

Talaat Pasha1. Was justice served?2. How does this relate

to the Nuremberg Trials

14 Points in a genocide class• V. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims,

based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.

• XII. The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development.

• XIV. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.

Peace Treaty of Sevres

ARTICLE 62.

A Commission sitting at Constantinople and composed of three members appointed by the British, French and Italian Governments respectively shall draft within six months from the coming into force of the present Treaty a scheme of local autonomy for the predominantly Kurdish areas lying east of the Euphrates, south of the southern boundary of Armenia as it may be hereafter determined, and north of the frontier of Turkey with Syria and Mesopotamia, as defined in Article 27, II (2) and (3). If unanimity cannot be secured on any question, it will be referred by the members of the Commission to their respective Governments. The scheme shall contain full safeguards for the protection of the Assyro-Chaldeans and other racial or religious minorities within these areas, and with this object a Commission composed of British, French, Italian, Persian and Kurdish representatives shall visit the spot to examine and decide what rectifications, if any, should be made in the Turkish frontier where, under the provisions of the present Treaty, that frontier coincides with that of Persia.

Peace Treaty of Sevres

ARTICLE 88.

Turkey, in accordance with the action already taken by the Allied Powers, hereby recognises Armenia as a free and independent State.

ARTICLE 89.

Turkey and Armenia as well as the other High Contracting Parties agree to submit to the arbitration of the President of the United States of America the question of the frontier to be fixed between Turkey and Armenia in the vilayets of Erzerum, Trebizond, Van and Bitlis, and to accept his decision thereupon, as well as any stipulations he may prescribe as to access for Armenia to the sea, and as to the demilitarisation of any portion of Turkish territory adjacent to the said frontier.

Peace Treaty of Sevres

ARTICLE 62.

A Commission sitting at Constantinople and composed of three members appointed by the British, French and Italian Governments respectively shall draft within six months from the coming into force of the present Treaty a scheme of local autonomy for the predominantly Kurdish areas lying east of the Euphrates, south of the southern boundary of Armenia as it may be hereafter determined, and north of the frontier of Turkey with Syria and Mesopotamia, as defined in Article 27, II (2) and (3). If unanimity cannot be secured on any question, it will be referred by the members of the Commission to their respective Governments. The scheme shall contain full safeguards for the protection of the Assyro-Chaldeans and other racial or religious minorities within these areas, and with this object a Commission composed of British, French, Italian, Persian and Kurdish representatives shall visit the spot to examine and decide what rectifications, if any, should be made in the Turkish frontier where, under the provisions of the present Treaty, that frontier coincides with that of Persia.

The New Ottoman Empire Occupied by the Allies

Turkey

Gone

Create a League of NationsArticle 23Subject to and in accordance with the provisions of international conventions existing or hereafter to be agreed upon, the Members of the League:will endeavour to secure and maintain fair and humane conditions of labour for men, women, and children, both in their own countries and in all countries to which their commercial and industrial relations extend.

undertake to secure just treatment of the native inhabitants of territories under their control;

Raphael Lemkin

Polish Lawyer

Alive during WWI

Fled from the Nazis

Coins term genocidehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzAexRmeZFs

My pick up line is simply I worked to coin the term genocide. Does that

impress you?

End of WWI Starts the Conversation about

• War Crime• Crime Against Humanity• Genocide

How did the post-WWI time period make an attempt to address genocide?

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Summary

After WWI and the killing of Armenians attempts by the victors of WWI were made to stop future killings. Those attempts were included in the 14 Points, Treaty of Sevres, the creation of a League of Nations and the work of Raphael Lemkin

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