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Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Saturday, April 27 2013, 22:00:06 (UTC)
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-- Based on what I saw in this film I would call what happened an ethnic cleansing based on the definition below, AND what was presented in the film, that the Young Turks wanted to "purify" the land and that suspicion had run amok about Armenians joining the Russian side, or taking up arms in militia's against their own country's soldiers.

ETHNIC CLEANSING

"Ethnic cleansing has been defined as the attempt to get rid of (through deportation, displacement or even mass killing) members of an unwanted ethnic group in order to establish an ethnically homogenous geographic area."

Ethnic Cleansing Throughout History

According to Bell-Fialkoff and others, the Assyrian Empire practiced ethnic cleansing when it forced millions of people in conquered lands to resettle between the ninth and seventh centuries B.C. Groups such as the Babylonians, Greeks and Romans continued this practice, though not always on such a large scale and often to procure slave labor. During the Middle Ages, religion rather than ethnicity was a main source of persecution; episodes of religious cleansing tended to target Jews, often the largest minority in European countries. In Spain, which had a large population of Jews and of Muslims, Jews were expelled in 1492 and Muslims in 1502; those who remained were forced to convert to Christianity, though all Muslim converts (called Moriscos) were expelled in the early 17th century. In North America, most Native Americans in North America were forced to resettle in territory allotted to them by the mid-19th century; when the Homestead Act of 1862 opened up most of the remaining lands to white settlers, those tribes who resisted--such as the Sioux, Comanche and Arapaho--were brutally crushed."

(This is not the best source, AT ALL... but here it is if you wish to read the rest: http://www.history.com/topics/ethnic-cleansing

-- But legally, ethnic cleansing came into use in the '90s to describe what had befallen the people of former Yugoslavia, and I think also in Rwanda.

-- Regarding genocide, it was conceived by Rafael Lemkin after the Holocaust around 1944 or 1945... and that, if I remember correctly, was one of Justin McCarthy's arguments against rendering what had taken place as a genocide or an attempt to commit one, when the word was coined thirty years later.

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AGHET Marcello - Saturday, April 27 2013, 11:45:26 (UTC)
- Re: AGHET Taoro - 04/27 12:52
  - Re: AGHET pancho - 04/27 13:02
  - Re: AGHET Marcello - 04/27 15:24
    - Re: AGHET Taoro - 04/27 20:26
      - Re: AGHET Marcello - 04/27 22:00
        Re: AGHET Rashad - 04/27 22:47
    - another conference... pancho - 04/28 17:27
  - Re: AGHET Rashad - 04/27 17:45

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