Foreword
The United Nations Convention on Genocide, adopted in 1948, defines genocide as acts committed with intent “to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. The term “genocide did not exist during World War I, however, when the Ottoman Empire, ruled by Muslim Turks, carried out a policy to deport members of its Christian Armenian minority. Some 1.5 million Armenians died during forced marches to the border, when eyewitnesses reported massacres by Turkish troops. Atrocities against Armenians continued until the Ottoman Empire collapsed at the end of the war. Whether thedeaths amounted to deliberate…
