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The Armenian Studies Program Presents: “Ordinary Killers of the Armenian Genocide: The Lower-Level Perpetrators” (Lecture III in a three-part series on the Armenian Genocide) by Dr. Suren Manukyan, Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies, fall 2021.
On the lowest level of the extermination “ordinary” murderers participated in the killings, taking advantage of the atmosphere of impunity, due to the general popular support. Carrying out genocide is impossible without the large participation of masses. Privates, volunteers conscribed to the paramilitary detachments of Teşkilat-i Mahsuse, gendarmerie officers, criminals released from prisons, doctors, peasants, students, Kurds, refugees from the Balkans, i.e. almost every group of the society took part in the process of annihilating Armenians.
About the speaker: Dr. Suren Manukyan is the Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies for the fall 2021 semester. He is the head of the UNESCO Chair on Prevention of Genocide and Other Atrocity Crimes at Yerevan State University and head of the Department of Comparative Genocide Studies at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (Yerevan). He is also a visiting lecturer at the American University of Armenia. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University of New Jersey.
Date: Friday, Nov. 12
Time: 7 p.m.
Register: bit.ly/armenianstudiesmanukyan3
For more information, contact Professor Barlow Der Mugrdechian at barlowd@csufresno.edu.
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