Armenian Genocide: history and the official “truth”

Authors

  • Ligia Cristina Sanchez de Almeida Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-5894.ip109-126

Keywords:

Genocide, armenians, denial, massacres, annihilation

Abstract

The Armenian Genocide (1915-16) is still denied by the turkish government, sponsored by many nations more interested in keeping the official version than revealing the historical actual facts. Unfortunately, the survivor’s voices were listened too late. The details on such a tragedy, considered the prototype of modern genocide, were forgotten long enough to allow Hitler to pronounce his famous sentence “who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?

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Author Biography

  • Ligia Cristina Sanchez de Almeida, Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
    Mestranda em História Social - FFLCH/USP

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http://www.armenian-genocide.org

http://www.armenianpress.am

http://www.armenianhouse.org

http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/armenian/facts/genocide.html

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Published

2012-07-30

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Section

Artigos

How to Cite

Armenian Genocide: history and the official “truth”. (2012). Vértices, 12, 109-126. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-5894.ip109-126