Those events resulted in the extermination of two million Armenians, plunder, and appropriation of all property of the civilian population.
No indigenous people were left in Western Armenia, and the remnants of the deprived and orphaned Armenians scattered around the planet. All this happened before the eyes of the civilized world at the dawn of the enlightened 20th century.
The book comprehensively and sweepingly represents the essence of this evil deed, its history, motives, and scale. All authors of the book are foreigners: Russians, French, English, Americans, Italians, Germans, Belgians, Swiss, Danes, Scots, Norwegians, Bulgarians, Estonians, Israelis, Arabs, Czechs, Poles, Iranians, Georgians, and even Turks.
They were people of different professions, different kinds of occupations: writers, historians, diplomats, travelers, missionaries, journalists, state and military figures. Many of them became living witnesses of these events.
The immediate goal of the book is to show the futility of the Turkish policy of denying the statements of objective representatives of many countries.
The multinational group of authors of the book not only represents the consistency of the nature of the monstrous crimes committed by Turkey towards its Christian or non-Christian population, but also justifiably accuses the Turkish empire of planning, organizing, and carrying out the first modern genocide in history.
The idea of creating the Black Book and the selection of authors and published materials belong to a literary critic and publisher Albert Isoyan. The book was published with the assistance of the “Legal Technologies of the XXI Century” Foundation.
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Armenian history of the turn of 20th century and 21st century has been heartbreaking, the aftermath of claps of Ottoman Empire and cold blooded German intelligentsia pursuing Turks to commit this violence of Genocide upon the innocent Armenian people. The failures of 10th and 11th centuries has not left its mark without brutality when we go back to Turkic and muslin Arab inversions of Anatolia and Eastern Europe. Shameless power grabbers, and in recent history realities of aftermath are showing multiple crimes against humanity all spamming from Armenian Genocide.
Yes, it was 2 million that were killed in the Armenian Genocide (which was much worst than first reported), and 600,000 in the Hamidian massacres (1894-1898) so we are looking at 3 million Armenians lost between 1894 - 1923). We must never lose sight of the prolonged genocide on Armenia from the fall of Ani to the early 19th century from Turkish predation, a staggering 8-9 million Armenians lost; a loss of civilization, cultural centers, and the potential of the Armenian nation, had these Turkish vermin not arrived from central Asia!
"a staggering 8-9 million Armenians lost?" Nah, lets round it up mate, say 10 million, no, let's make it 15 million. Modern Armenia's population less than 3 million today but so what...? We can always blame "Turkish vermin" can't we? Somebody will have to believe this crap, won't they?