“Perhaps the
first use of the word –holocaust- to describe a human rights disaster was on
the front page of the New York Times on Sept. 10, 1895, in the headline Another
Armenian Holocaust. The article describes the mass murder of more than five
thousand Armenians by a force of one thousand Turkish troops in the Erzinjan
district of Eastern Turkey”.
(Peter Balakian, The Burning
Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, HarperCollins Publishers,
2003, NY, USA, P. 11)
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