France: Television 8:40 p.m. this evening LCP The Armenian Genocide

On the occasion of the anniversary of the roundup of Armenian intellectuals in Constantinople April 24, 1915, LCP offers to reopen the pages of history to understand the origins of the Armenian genocide, which claimed the lives of more than one million Armenian.

There 99 years, April 24, 1915, the arrest of more than 600 leaders and intellectuals Armenians, in an orderly Constantinople by the nationalist Young Turks, while the government in the Ottoman Empire raid, sealed the fate two-thirds of the Armenians of Anatolia.

Between a million and a million and a half Armenians accused of conspiracy in favor of the Russians, while Turkey had to engage in the First World War on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary were victims between 1915 and 1916 a policy of deportations and massacres.

This film tells the page of history, placing the facts in the complex geopolitical context of the early twentieth century. Through archives and testimonials available different actor s and / or witnesses of this tragedy documents, this documentary looks back at the origin, nature and issues of the Armenian genocide.

Before 1894, three million Armenians and as many Turks formed half the population of the Ottoman Empire. In 1917, two thirds of Armenians have been exterminated. The elimination process was put into place gradually. In 1914, after the killings, exiles and forced conversions, the Armenians are already more than 2.25 million. When Turkey entered the war in November 1914, the Armenians were the first to step up to the 250 000 Armenian soldiers were disarmed and assigned in “labor battalions” that they will never return. On 24 April 1915 the arrest of 650 intellectuals and notables sounds kick appalling massacres that will continue until 1917.