A Conceptual Approach to Sexual Violence during the Armenian Genocide

Holslag, Anthonie

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“…This rationale is reflected in other systemic patterns. During searches of villages, civilian men were separated from their families and murdered (Harrelson, 2009). During deportations, males above the age of twelve who had yet survived were separated from the deportees and shot (Maksudyan, 2018).…”

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“…Rape is defined as 'a physical invasion of a sexual nature, committed on a person under [coercive] circumstances' (Harrelson, 2009, p.171). While Armenian women and girls were raped before the deportations, its perpetration became most systematic during the deportations, as deportees' guards became their constant abusers, while Kurdish populations were notified of the deportees' arrivals in advance for them to rob and rape women and girls (Harrelson, 2009). Why were Armenian women systemically raped?…”

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“…Rape indeed caused the death of thousands of female deportees (Bjørnlund, 2009). However, on the collective level, rape inflicts such physical and emotional trauma which by itself prevents women from procreating (Harrelson, 2009). In combination with the attached social stigma to rape especially in patriarchal societies like the Armenian (Kennedy, 2017), rape became another tool of the genocide of the Armenian ethnicity and culture.…”

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Gender-Based Violence During the Armenian Genocide

De Jong

2023

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This paper analyses atrocities during the Armenian genocide through a gendered lens. Asking to what extent men and women have been differently affected by gender-based violence, Carpenter’s framework is applied that specifically recognises men’s often-overlooked victimisation of gender-based violence. The application concludes that men were, just like women, victims of gender-based violence during the Armenian genocide, but that the rationales behind the targeting of women and men greatly differed. It follows that, while Carpenter is right in arguing that gender-based violence against women and men cannot be prevented separately from each other, as the gender roles naturalising the violence depend on one another, the mainstreaming of gender in atrocity-prevention and treatment should still safeguard female-tailored sexual violence prevention and treatments, given their remaining higher victimisation and the additional underlying rationales for their victimisation that do not apply to men. Keywords: Armenian Genocide, Atrocity-Prevention, Gender-Based Violence

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Gender-Based Violence During the Armenian Genocide

De Jong

2023

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“…30 Moreover, the Turkish oppressors' custom of assembling and assassinating Armenian women (mostly from deportation caravans) inside Armenian churches gestured a symbolic performance of power. 31 On the other hand, ordinary men forcibly kidnapped Armenians and subsequently put them up for auction. 32 After each purchase, wealthy Turkish men coerced these Armenian children and women -most of whom are of childbearing age -to adopt Turkish names, convert to Islam, undergo Turkification, and enter marriages or sexual slavery under Muslim noblemen.…”

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Variations on a Dirge of Extermination: “Der Zor Çölünde” and the Armenian Genocide

Osorio

2023

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In one of his lectures at Northwestern University, Eli Wiesel (1977) stressed that “if the Greeks invented tragedy, the Romans the epistle, and the Renaissance the sonnet, our generation invented a new literature, that of testimony.” However, Wiesel suggested the generation of the Holocaust and most likely have forgotten the eyewitness survivors of the Armenian Genocide. In this article, I focus on a specific kind of testimony that emerged amongst the survivors of the Armenian Genocide: the song-testimony. Thinking about music and sound is important as the experience of genocide stretches far beyond the visual-oriented notions of such tragedy. It is in this spirit that I write this essay to investigate “Der Zor Çölünde,” a series of song-testimonies that musically charts the experience of Armenians during the Genocide of 1915–1923. I primarily argue that Armenian deportees appropriated the musical and lyrical template of “Der Zor Çölünde” by creating new verses. In doing so, Armenians illustrated and immortalized what they saw, felt, and experienced during the deportations and forced marches. Considering the multifaceted nature of “Der Zor Çölünde,” this essay reimagines the Armenian Genocide experience through the voice(s) of its protagonists. Furthermore, I emphasize the importance and implication of listening to the performances of “Der Zor Çölünde” against the official narratives of genocide denial.

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Between Love, Pain and Identity: Armenian Women After World War I

Aleksanyan

2019

Women's Everyday Lives in War and Peace in the South Caucasus

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A Conceptual Approach to Sexual Violence during the Armenian Genocide

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Gender-Based Violence During the Armenian Genocide

Gender-Based Violence During the Armenian Genocide

Variations on a Dirge of Extermination: “Der Zor Çölünde” and the Armenian Genocide

Between Love, Pain and Identity: Armenian Women After World War I

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