Warrant for Genocide provides a unique, interdisciplinary
approach to understanding the underlying causes of the World War I
Armenian genocide. It traces genocide to the origin and history of
the long-standing Turko-Armenian discord with the massacres treated
as a means to resolve the conflict between a powerful, dominant
group and a weak, vulnerable minority.
The World War I destruction of the Armenian people in the
Ottoman Empire was neither an accident nor an aberration. The seeds
of the large-scale deportations and massacres of Armenians can be
found in the 1919u1920 Turkish Courts Martial documents of leaders
of the Young Turk Ittihadist regime. These were replete with
xenophobic nationalism, calls for the use of arms to achieve that
end, and references to Islam to incite the masses against
Armenians. The utmost secrecy, camouflage, and deflection with
respect to their plans were evident in what was not said. This was
a drastic departure by the regime from its publicly proclaimed
posture of egalitarianism, heralding the dawn of a new era of
multiethnic harmony and accord in the decaying empire.
Dadrian carefully details these calculated deliberations and the
concomitant shift from Ottomanism to Turkism in the radical wing of
the regime. He illustrates how this rekindled enmities between
dominant Turks and subject minorities. The desire to neutralize or
eliminate the opposition helped pave the way to a new and radical
nationality policy. To Dadrian, the act of genocide was a draconian
method of resolving a lingering conflict.
No analysis of the Armenian genocide can be adequate without
understanding the origin, elements, evolution, and escalation of
the Turko-Armenian conflict. Dadrian details this admirably,
showing that in the final analysis, the Armenian genocide was a
cataclysmic by-product of this conflict. Genocide and Holocaust
scholars, Armenian area specialists, and human rights activists
will consider this an essential addition to the literature.
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