Edwin M. Bliss Edgewood Publishing Company, 1896, p. 432 Erzerum, Armenian highlands in eastern Anatolia. Britain's proactive policy on the Armenian Question and the standpoints of the British public and political and civic organizations on the massacres of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire in 1894-1896 were widely reflected in the contemporary British press and other media accounts. When, in 1894, the Armenians in the Sasun region refused to pay an oppressive tax, Ottoman troops and Kurdish tribesmen killed thousands of Armenians in the region. Nineteen years later, when the empire was weakened by disintegration and war, some one million persons—half of the Armenian population—were killed with the active participation of the Committee of Union and Progress, the ruling party of the day. Armenian Massacre of 1894-1895. This compilation of published reports from that era remind us of the extent of those precursor atrocities and the public indignation registered in the United States. Overshadowing all other events of 1895 was the decrepit and infamous Turkish government's methodical massacre of the Armenian element of its people - … Armenian Massacre of 1894-1895.

Although the intensive phase of the 1915 genocide took place during 1915-1916, the massacres of Armenians were committed long before and … The abundant American diplomatic and journalistic record of the 1915 Armenian Genocide has overshadowed the accounts of the 1894–1896 massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities by Edwin Munsell Bliss (originally published in 1896). Another series of mass killings began in the fall of 1895, when Ottoman authorities’ suppression of an Armenian demonstration in Istanbul became a massacre. The Hamidian massacres (Armenian language: Համիդյան ջարդեր), also referred to as the Armenian Massacres of 1894–1896 and Great Massacres, refer to massacres of Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in the mid-1890s, with estimates of the dead ranging between 80,000 to 300,000, and at least 50,000 children made orphans as a result. Timeline: 1894-1913. They were carried out during the reign of Abdul Hamid (Abdulhamit) II (1876-1909), the last sultan effectively to rule over the Turkish state. When, in 1894, the Armenians in the Sasun region refused to pay an oppressive tax, Ottoman troops and Kurdish tribesmen killed thousands of them and burned their villages.

1915 Genocide / Armenian Genocide.

Nineteen years later, when the empire was weakened by disintegration and war, some one million persons—half of the Armenian population—were killed with the active participation of the Committee of Union and Progress, the ruling party of the day. The Armenian Massacres in 1894-1896 were the first near-genocidal series of atrocities committed against the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. In the period 1894–96, when the Ottoman Empire was ruled by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, tens of thousands of Armenians were massacred.

1915 Genocide / Armenian Genocide. Armenian Massacre Sketch by an eye-witness of the terrible massacre of Armenians by Softas (Fanatical Moslem Students near St. Sofia) Source: "Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities" by Rev. Letters from the Scenes of the Recent Massacres in Armenia by J. Rendel Harris & B. Helen Harris.

In the year 1877 Armenia witnessed new horrors. Until now this book is considered to be the most accurate and full description of the Hamidian massacres of 1894-1896 by a Western traveler. Another wave of killing began in September 1895, when the Ottoman authorities’ repression of an Armenian protest in Istanbul turned into a massacre. It was estimated casualties ranged from 80,000 to 300,000, resulting in 50,000 orphaned children. In the period 1894–96, when the Ottoman Empire was ruled by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, tens of thousands of Armenians were massacred. Armenian Massacre of 1877.

Although the intensive phase of the 1915 genocide took place during 1915-1916, the massacres of … The Hamidian massacres (Armenian: Համիդյան ջարդեր, Turkish: Hamidiye Katliamı, French: Massacres hamidiens), also referred to as the Armenian Massacres of 1894–1896 and Armenian genocide, were massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire that took place in the mid-1890s. Overshadowing all other events of 1895 was the decrepit and infamous Turkish government's methodical massacre of the Armenian element of its people - … …

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Timeline: 1894-1913.