It’s hard to believe that one hundred years has passed since the wheel of mass atrocity began in earnest on April 24, 1915. Taking an exact count on the death and suffering is impossible but global experts indicate numbers up to 1.5 million murdered Armenians lost their lives under Ottoman rule.
Today this act has not gone unrecognized. Twenty-one countries have formally recognized the reality of the Armenian Genocide. This does not include Germany who has plans to jump in as a new nation recognizing the genocide officially on Friday April 24. Each nation must recognize the genocide through government resolutions, laws and declarations.
This image of an Armenian woman rocking her
baby in a wooden cradle was taken in an unknown location inside the
Ottoman empire in 1908. Taken before the official outbreak of the
Armenian Genocide as great suffering and death followed Armenian
families as they were forced to be part of the ‘Long Walk’, this photo
shows the ‘too often’ challenges of life for many Armenians and the
hardships in the years leading up to April 24, 1915. image:
Gallica-BNF-FR/Bibliotheque National de France
baby in a wooden cradle was taken in an unknown location inside the
Ottoman empire in 1908. Taken before the official outbreak of the
Armenian Genocide as great suffering and death followed Armenian
families as they were forced to be part of the ‘Long Walk’, this photo
shows the ‘too often’ challenges of life for many Armenians and the
hardships in the years leading up to April 24, 1915. image:
Gallica-BNF-FR/Bibliotheque National de France
