YEREVAN. – Armenian News-NEWS.am presents pieces of Vanderbilt University public policy Professor Lawrence Schneiderman’s article published in Eurasia Review:

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, Genocide is a very specific term, referring to violent crimes committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of the group.

Genocide is a specific and horrendous act that should not be trivialized. Equally, it is wrong to apply its use incorrectly for political gain or correctness.

For anyone who has forgotten – here is a short recap of actual genocides in the 20th century. The Armenian Genocide was implemented in 1915 and lasted until the end of World War I. In the end, the Ottoman Turks had murdered 1.5 million Armenian men, women, and children. The means of extermination were methodically planned, with the intention of destroying the existence of the Armenian people in Turkey. They used some of the same methods we associate with Nazi Germany, such as death marches, starvation, extermination camps, use of poison gases, drowning children, and mass burnings.

Their intent from the start was to wipe out the Armenian people, with the ultimate end game resulting in the systematic eradication of the Armenian population from Turkey. The fact that modern day Turkey, under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, denies that it was genocide is ridiculous.

The Jewish Holocaust of World War II is understood and accepted today as the definition of Genocide, in most of the world. The exception is the world’s Islamic nations. Nazi Germany and their Quisling collaborators exterminated 6 million Jews, two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, in a systematic state planned program, The Final Solution. The methods and means of history’s most horrific genocide are well documented.