Robert Fisk on the Armenian Genocide

From today's Independent:

The story of the last century's first Holocaust – Winston Churchill used this very word about the Armenian genocide years before the Nazi murder of six million Jews – is well known, despite the refusal of modern-day Turkey to acknowledge the facts.

Nor are the parallels with Nazi Germany's persecution of the Jews idle ones. Turkey's reign of terror against the Armenian people was an attempt to destroy the Armenian race. While the Turks spoke publicly of the need to "resettle" their Armenian population – as the Germans were to speak later of the Jews of Europe – the true intentions of Enver Pasha's Committee of Union and Progress in Constantinople were quite clear.

Unfortunately, Fisk's article is poorly presented: a chunk of it is repeated.

And I am not sure the story of the Armenian Genocide is that well known. This is a case where the BBC's practice of giving links to further sources would have been useful. So try the Armenian National Institute.

The photograph shows the Genocide Memorial outside Yerevan in Armenia