Armenian Genocide

They lived in the Ottoman Empire and were second class citizens. They lived in harmony with the Turks for the mos part and there was very little violent conflict between the Armenians and everybody else. This began to change as they started to endure special hardships like taxes and second class citizenship. Nationalism started to change the way things were. It made ethnic groups self-conscious which made the Ottoman Empire crumble. When WW1 occured it gave the Young Turk government the cover and reason to carry out their plan.The Armenian leaders were killed leaving them leaderless and giving the government complete control over them. The Young Turks said they had to relocate the Armenians for their own good but they were really leading them on death marches. The men that were well were drafted and then killed which left the women, children, and elderly to be systematicly murdered.  I think that any type of killing is horrible. No one should want to get rid of a whole race of people because they think those people are inferior to them. It was completely wrong and not fair at all.