Taking Action

The failure to prosecute the criminals who committed the 1915 massacres has served as an excuse for Turkey to deny the Armenian Genocide. In the 21st century, individuals, organizations, and nations can make a difference in preventing genocide, ethnic cleansing, intolerance and injustice by acting upon the international norms that now make them unlawful.

Genocide of the Yezidi People

A hundred years after the start of the Armenian Genocide, in the very zone of northern Iraq and northern Syria where Armenians were deported and massacred by Ottoman Turkish authorities, another minority population was subjected to similar atrocities, including deportation, mass slaughter, abduction, and starvation. While ISIS has persecuted a number of distinct ethnic groups, its mistreatment of the Yezidi people has been labeled a genocide by several international bodies. The condemnation of these acts is still pending in the United States Congress.