Often overshadowed by the heinous actions of the Jewish Genocide (a.k.a. The Holocaust), the Armenian Genocide, denied by many of the Turkish and unknown by a majority of the public, is a historical event that should never be concealed. Occurring between 1915 and 1917, the Armenian Genocide resulted in the death of 1.5 million Armenians.
A magnificent, yet tragic, account of the Armenian Genocide is in the novel The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey by Dawn Anahid MacKeen. The novel alternates between two different stories: the struggle of Stepan Miskjian's escape from the internment camps during the Armenian Genocide and the journey of his granddaughter, and author of this book, Dawn MacKeen, as she follows the footsteps of Stepan through the help of his journals' accounts of the war nearly a century later.
Since the publication of this novel, knowledge of this heartbreaking event has increased. For those of you who haven't read the novel or are not familiar with the Armenian Genocide, here are a few photos that reveal the harsh reality of the event.
*Warning: these photos reveal explicit images that may be disturbing to some viewers and may not be suitable for younger viewers.
1. Armenians being laid out in front of a relief hospital after being massacred.
2. Armenian children after being rescued from an internment camp.
3. Armenian orphans, 1918.
4. Armenian woman crying over her child's body.
5. March of Armenians being deported from Turkey.
6. A refugee camp in Syria.
7. A mother sitting beside the corpses of her five children.
8. Decapitated heads of Armenians are placed on stakes.
9. Carts transporting Armenians for deportation.
10. A woman lays on the ground after being beaten and tortured.
I hope these photos gave some enlightenment to those who were unaware of the Armenian Genocide. Let us never forget the victims of such horrific times and learn from such mistakes.
