Warrant for Genocide

Download or read book Warrant for Genocide written by Vahakn N. Dadrian and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the underlying causes of the World War I Armenian Genocide. It traces the genocide to the origin and history of the long-standing Turko-Armenian discord, with the massacres treated as a means to resolve the conflict between a dominant group and a vulnerable minority. The destruction of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire was neither an accident nor an aberration. Dadrian carefully details the calculated deliberations and the shift from Ottomanism to Turkism in the radical wing of the regime, with the act of genocide as a draconian method of resolving a lingering conflict.