In todays blog I am going to be talking about the Armenian Genocide, even though I am not Armenian I just thought I should talk about it. The Armenian Genocide began on April 24 1915 in the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish government set out to expel and massacre the two million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. On that day the Turkish government also arrested and executed many of the Armenians. After that happened most of the ordinary Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were kicked out of their homes. They were forced to march through the Mesopotamian desert without any food or water. Most of the people who were marching were stripped naked and were forced to walk under the burning hot sun and most of the dropped dead because it was so hot. Most people who stopped to rest were shot dead. A group called Young Turks "overthrew Sultan Abdul Hamid and established a more modern constitutional government. At first, the Armenians were hopeful that they would have an equal place in this new state, but they soon learned that what the nationalistic Young Turks wanted most of all was to “Turkify” the empire. According to this way of thinking, non-Turks–and especially Christian non-Turks–were a grave threat to the new state." The Young Turks would drown the Armenians in the rivers, crucify them or even bury them alive. They often times kidnapped the children converted them to Islam and gave them to Turkish families. In other places they would rape the women and force them to become slaves. Some Muslim families then moved into the houses of the Armenians who used to live there. Finally in 1922 after nine years the genocide was finally over. There was now only 380,000 Armenians left in the Ottoman Empire after the Genocide. Since Turkey is one of Americas allies they never recognized the Genocide. But finally in March of 2010 congress voted to recognize the Genocide. That's it for todays blog I hope you guys enjoyed it!!!