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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (11918)	2/25/2002 4:24:28 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

"I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915." Henry Morgenthau, Sr. US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire hr-action.org

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (11918)	2/25/2002 4:25:36 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Summary of Events Leading up to the Genocide Somewhat surprisingly to many, Armenians and Turks lived in relative harmony in the Ottoman empire for centuries. Armenians were known as the "loyal millet". During these times, although Armenians were not equal and had to put up with certain special hardships, they were pretty well accepted and there was no real conflict. Things began to change for a number of reasons. Nationalism, a new force in the world reared its head and made ethnic groupings self-conscious, and the Ottoman Empire began to crumble. It became known as "the sick man of Europe" and the only thing holding it together really was the European powers lack of agreement on how to split it up. As other Christian minorities gained their independence one by one, the Armenians became more isolated as the only major Christian minority. Armenians and Turks began to have conflicting dreams of the future cilicia.com