The Armenian Genocide ( , ; ; ) , also known as the Armenian Holocaust , was the Ottoman government 's systematic extermination of 700,000 to 1.5 million Armenians , mostly citizens of the Ottoman Empire .

The Armenian Genocide is acknowledged Statement to have been one of the first modern genocides Killing , because scholars point to the organized Arranging manner in which the killings were carried out Action .

In 2007 , the International Association of Genocide Scholars ( IAGS ) reached Arriving a consensus that the `` Ottoman campaign Military_operation against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide Killing against Armenians , Assyrians , and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks . ''

Gregory Stanton , the President of the IAGS in 2007–2008 and the founder of Genocide Watch , endorsed Agree_or_refuse_to_act the `` repudiation Statement by the world 's leading Causation genocide scholars of the Turkish government 's ninety-year denial of the Ottoman Empire 's genocides Killing against its Christian populations , including Assyrians , Greeks , and Armenians . ''

Oxford University held Hold an academic consensus calling the occupation of East Timor a genocide and Yale University teaches Education_teaching it as part of its Genocide Studies program .

As the Hazara people 's Genocide is going on since more than One decade none of the sunni extremists Terrorism has been brought Bringing to Justice .

On the Allied side were Arabs who participated Participation in the Arab Revolt and the Armenian militia who participated Participation in the Armenian Resistance during the Armenian Genocide ; along with Armenian volunteer units , the Armenian militia formed Coming_to_be the Armenian Corps of the First Republic of Armenia in 1918 .

The Ottomans had tried to move the Armenians during the Armenian Genocide and occupied Hold the South Caucasus during Summer 1918 .

The offensive Military_operation , and in particular the degree of Turkish involvement Participation in it , has been widely attributed Judgment_communication with the deportation Removing of the native ethnic Armenians of the town of Kessab , who make up 70 % of its population , and has been compared Check with the past Turkish killings Killing of Armenians during the Hamidian massacres Killing and Armenian Genocide .

Based mostly in the city of Van , it was one of the few successful instances during the Armenian Genocide when Armenians fought Hostile_encounter against the Ottoman Empire 's armed forces .

The Malabar Riot ( also known as the Moplah Genocide and `` Māppila Lahaḷa '' ) was an armed Bearing_arms uprising in 1921 against British authority in the Malabar region of Southern India by Mappilas and the culmination of a series of Mappila revolts that recurred Coming_to_be throughout the 19th century and early 20th century .

Historian Alfred-Maurice de Zayas has written Writing that in his view , despite the small number of deaths in the pogrom , the riots met Come_together the `` intent to destroy in whole or in part '' criterion of the Genocide Convention .