The following poster was designed by Benyamin Mohammadi Amlashi a graphic designer from Iran. A contribute to the Armenian genocide for the 97th Anniversary.
What is the Armenian Genocide?
The atrocities committed against the Armenian people of the Ottoman Empire during WWI are defined as the Armenian Genocide. Those massacres were perpetrated throughout different regions of the Ottoman Empire by the Young Turkish Government which was in power at the time. The first international reaction to the violence resulted in a joint statement by France, Russia and Great Britain, in May 1915, where the Turkish atrocities directed against the Armenian people was defined as “new crime against humanity and civilization” agreeing that the Turkish government must be punished for committing such crimes. There were an estimated two million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire on the eve of WWI. Approximately one and a half million Armenians perished between 1915 and 1923. Another half million found shelter abroad.
April 24, 1915 marked the beginning of the Armenian Genocide in Constantinople (present day Istanbul) with the arrest, torture and execution of 300 Armenian intellectuals, writers, poets, political and civic leaders by the Young Turk Government of the Ottoman Empire. Also on that day, 5,000 of the poorest Armenians were butchered in the streets and in their homes.
Links: http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/armenian_genocide.php
http://www.hamovhotov.com/timeline/?p=546
http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/armenian_genocide.htm
http://www.armenian-genocide.org/genocide.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6045182.stm
