This year, on 24th April, Armenians around the world will mark the centenary of the Armenian genocide. It was on this date in 1915 when the Ottoman Turks began the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians, an act which the Turkish government still denies to this date. The failure to prevent the atrocities or punish the perpetrators led to the modern cycle of genocide.     The Armenian genocide refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I.  The Armenian genocide was centrally planned and administered by the Turkish government and was carried out between 1915 and 1918. The Armenian people were subjected to deportation, expropriation, abduction, torture, massacre, and starvation. The great bulk of the Armenian population was forcibly removed from Armenia and Anatolia to Syria, where the vast majority was sent into the desert to die of thirst and hunger. Large numbers of Armenians were methodically massacred throughout the Ottoman Empire. Women and children were abducted and horribly abused. The entire wealth of the Armenian people was expropriated. After only a little more than a year of calm at the end of WWI, the atrocities were renewed […]