Betrayed - The Forgotten 'Armenian' Holocaust


"In April 1915 the Ottoman government embarked upon the systematic decimation of its civilian Armenian population. The persecutions continued with varying intensity until 1923 when the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist and was replaced by the Republic of Turkey. The Armenian population of the Ottoman state was reported at about two million in 1915. An estimated one million had perished by 1918, while hundreds of thousands had become homeless and stateless refugees. By 1923 virtually the entire Armenian population of Anatolian Turkey had disappeared." – Armenian National Institute. 

Fergal Patrick Keane investigates, for Correspondent, how the holocaust returns to haunt the relationship between Turkey and its western allies. For decades Armenians campaigned to have the killings of their forefathers in Ottoman Turkey recognized as genocide but there has been an equally determined campaign by Turkey to this day to deny the ‘genocide’ with threats of reprisals against any country that uses the term 'genocide' to describe the slaughter encouraged by the United States anxious to win Ankara's support in geo-politics. 

The documentary discloses how President George W Bush and his predecessor Bill Clinton both broke promises to the Armenians that they would recognize the ‘genocide.’ Talking to Armenian survivors, Turkish officials and key political figures in the United States, Keane investigates two different versions of events that left Armenians 'Betrayed' in their Forgotten Holocaust. 

Courtesy of FreeDocumentaries.com. 

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