But she says it should have come sooner. The wounds of the past will not fully heal, in her view, until Turkey acknowledges the genocide. During the genocide, his great-grandfather, who served in the Ottoman army in World War I, fled to Syria, where he met his future wife, an Armenian refugee. But Maghakyan says that the U. Last fall, in the latest in a series of conflicts in the region, Armenian forces clashed with Azerbaija n, which was backed politically and militarily by its ally Turkey, killing at least 6, Azerbaijani and Armenian soldiers.
A Russian-brokered peace deal that ended the six-week war required Armenia to hand control of large swathes of territory over to Azerbaijan.
Maghakyan believes the U. Maghakyan has been researching the erasure of Armenian culture for the past 15 years. His research , conducted independently, indicated over the past 30 years cultural and religious Armenian artefacts were covertly and systematically destroyed in an alleged Azerbaijani campaign to eliminate indigenous Armenian culture in Nakhichevan, an Azerbaijani exclave between Armenia, Iran and Turkey.
Maghakyan and Sarah Pickman, a co-author of the report, found that the destroyed artifacts included 5, cross-stones, the earliest of which date back to the 6th century, despite a UNESCO order demanding their protection. Congress has also increased the tools available to dissuade perpetrators from committing atrocities through the passage of sanctions legislation, including the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. While these efforts provide a clear statement of U.
The protection of communities at risk of atrocities should be an integral component of U. Mass atrocities are significantly destabilizing events, regardless of whether they happen within or outside of armed conflict. As a result, states with high atrocity risk are not reliable diplomatic partners.
Prioritizing prevention and the protection of communities vulnerable to atrocities will result in diplomatic relationships that not only better align with U. Furthermore, prioritizing prevention does not require deprioritizing other U. The fuller use of these tools — from conflict assessment frameworks to the expertise of the Atrocity Early Warning Task Force — can improve coordination and strengthen diplomatic and development responses to high-risk atrocity situations.
Type: Podcast. But the revival this week of war in the Caucasus region should galvanize policymakers in Washington, Europe and Moscow to lean in hard and resurrect vigorous peacemaking for the first time in recent memory.
Type: Analysis and Commentary. Peace Processes. Publicly available satellite imaging used to document atrocities in Darfur and wartime destruction in the Syrian city of Aleppo will be tested by scientists in a USIP-funded project to gauge its usefulness in tracking the signs of impending cross-border conflict. Type: In the Field. Turkey says many Muslim Turks also died in the turmoil of war. The Young Turks - an officers' movement that had seized power in - launched a series of measures against Armenians as the Ottoman Empire was crumbling through military defeats in the war.
Turkish propaganda at the time presented the Armenians as saboteurs and a pro-Russian "fifth column". Armenians mark the date 24 April as the start of what they regard as the genocide. That was when the Ottoman government arrested about Armenian intellectuals and community leaders. They were later executed. Armenians in the Ottoman army were disarmed and killed.
Armenian property was confiscated. Several senior Ottoman officials were put on trial in Turkey in in connection with the atrocities. A local governor, Mehmed Kemal, was found guilty and hanged for the mass killing of Armenians in the central Anatolian district of Yozgat.
The Young Turks' top triumvirate - the "Three Pashas" - had already fled abroad. They were sentenced to death in absentia. Historians have questioned the judicial procedures at these trials, the quality of the evidence presented and the degree to which the Turkish authorities may have wished to appease the victorious Allies.
Argentina, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia and Uruguay are among the more than 20 other countries which have formally recognised genocide against the Armenians.
In some cases the recognition has come in parliament resolutions, not from governments. Among the most significant was that of the US Congress in US governments had held back for decades, partly because Turkey is the second-biggest military power in Nato and strategically vital for the West. The US hosts the largest Armenian diaspora after Russia, estimated at more than a million.
Turkey reacted angrily after Pope Francis called it "the first genocide of the 20th Century" in the run-up to the centenary commemorations. Turkey recalled its Vatican ambassador and accused the Pope of having "discriminated about people's suffering". The Pope "overlooked atrocities that Turks and Muslims suffered in World War One and only highlighted the Christian suffering, especially that of the Armenian people", the Turkish foreign ministry said.
France has a large Armenian diaspora and since it has officially commemorated "the Armenian genocide" on 24 April, including a ceremony at a Paris monument.
The killings are regarded as the seminal event of modern Armenian history, binding the diaspora together. Armenians are one of the world's most dispersed peoples. In Turkey, public debate on the issue has been stifled. Article of the penal code, on "insulting Turkishness", has been used to prosecute prominent writers who highlight the mass killings of Armenians.
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