#armenia

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed. ↗

— Eliot Engel

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#deported #empire #estimated #eve #hundreds

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

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#armenia #armenian #celebrating #hearing #holidays

But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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#beginning #definition #europe #genocide #happened