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= AR   M E N I AN     G E <span style="color: rgb(120, 207, 186)"><span style="color: rgb(76, 193, 178)">N  <span style="color: rgb(76, 193, 178)">O <span style="color: rgb(32, 178, 170)"><span style="color: rgb(77, 194, 181)">CI  <span style="color: rgb(77, 194, 181)"> <span style="color: rgb(122, 209, 192)">D <span style="color: rgb(166, 225, 203)"><span style="color: rgb(211, 240, 214)">E    = <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> During the Ottoman Empire, the Armenians and the Turks lived together in peace, but the Armenians were treated as the lower class and were forced to deal with certain special hardships and taxes. When the feeling of nationalism started to spread and the Ottoman Empire was coming to an end, the Armenians were pushed aside and isolated because they were one of the only countries that didn’t follow the Christian religion. While Armenians were planning to gain independence too, like many other countries, the nationalist Turkish countries planned to spread their rule to the Turkic speaking parts of Central Asia. Even though the European Powers asked for assurance that there would be no problems with the treatment of Armenians, they were indeed treated worse and worse throughout time. The massacres throughout the centuries (1894, 1895, 1896, 1909) showed that the Turks were planning to completely remove Armenians off the face of the Earth. During World War I, the Turks had the chance to carry out their plan to eliminate the Armenian population. The Armenians were sent to stay inside a quarter of the city of Van in April of 1915. They were told the purpose of this was for something else, for their safety, but instead the Armenian population in the war zone along the Russian front was brutally murdered and not subjected to deportation. People murdered in this first massive killing included all the of the Armenians Leaders, leaving the other Armenians to be leaderless. The mass expulsion of the Armenian population stretched the entire length of the Anatolian Peninsula from Samsun and Trebizond in the north to Adana and Urfa in the south, from Bursa in the west and all other communities around the Sea of Marmara, including the European sector of Turkey, all the way to Erzerum and Harput in the east and everywhere in between, including Ankara, Konya, Sivas, and Malatia. The remaining Armenians were told to gather what they could for a temporary relocation. The Armenians submissively followed their orders and were "escorted" by Turkish Gendarmes in death marches. On the way there, The Armenians were raped, starved, dehydrated, murdered, and kidnapped and those who were left would be left to die in the Syrian Desert. After the war ended, the Turkish government held criminal trials and found the triumvirate guilty .All were later executed by Armenians. Turkey agreed to let the U.S. draw the border between the newly born Republic of Armenia and the Turkish government.

One survivor from the Armenian Genocide was Kosrov Derebegian. During an interview about her experiences from the genocide, she said "As in the Holocaust, Armenians were tattooed, men separated from their families, women were violated and children impaled upon Turkish bayonets,". This relates to the Pyramid of Hate because its an act of prejudice and violence. When the Armenians were tattooed, they lost the identity they were born with and were known as just the numbers and letters on their arms by the guards who kept track of them.

The experiences of Eli Wiesel from //Night// and the Armenian genocide are alike because they both experience acts of bias, predudice, discrimination, violence and eventually genocide. They were both originally outcasted because of they're different religious differences and were treated differently in small way, whether it was paying extra taxes or being stereotyped. They were moved to a small part of their town and fenced in, and in those areas they were murdered or forced to relocate to another city where they were forced to do labor or try to survive under impossible conditions that would eventually kill and wipe them all out. Subtle acts of violence can turn into genocide because one race won't like the fact that another race has a different religion or cultural beliefs.

English, Merle. "REMEMBERING TRAGEDY THOUSANDS EXPECTED TO MARK ARMENIAN SLAUGHTER ." __THE NEW NEW YORKERS__ 08 April 1998: "Armenian massacres." __Britannica Concise Encyclopedia__. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2006. //Answers.com// 31 Oct. 2008. http://www.answers.com/topic/armenian-massacres

"Armenian massacres." __Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa__. The Gale Group, Inc, 2004. //Answers.com// 31 Oct. 2008. http://www.answers.com/topic/armenian-massacres