Affronter la barbarie
Facing BarbarismMass murders of the Armenians began in the Ottoman Empire in the summer of 1894 and continued for over two years claiming more than 200,000 victims. This high human cost was a considerable one for the 19th century including during colonial times.These “major mass murders” were a fore...
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2008
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | Facing BarbarismMass murders of the Armenians began in the Ottoman Empire in the summer of 1894 and continued for over two years claiming more than 200,000 victims. This high human cost was a considerable one for the 19th century including during colonial times.These “major mass murders” were a forerunner of the mass violence and genocides that took place in the next century, and are precursors of the methods and procedures that would be employed twenty years later in that same territory – the Ottoman Empire – in order to eliminate the Armenian presence. This aspect of elimination was well understood by contemporaries at the time the events took place. The mass murders, likened to a form of modern barbarism, aroused significant protests in Europe and the United States within a wide circle of intellectuals and high-ranking legislators. Particularly in France, the mobilization took on an exceptional character which was never to be repeated again, even in response to the Armenian genocide and other genocides that occurred in the 20th century. The sole posterity of this singular reaction was that one year later it set up the intellectual and political conditions which supported the protests in favor of Captain Dreyfus. |
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