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| |  | | Mehmed Talat Pasha | | | context : | Armenian genocide  | | judgement place : | Ottoman empire | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Sentenced to death in absentia by an Ottoman Tribunal | | position : | Interior Minister and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire |
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| | | | It is in the context of the Armenian Genocide that the term “crimes against humanity” was employed for the first time.
On 23 May 1915, Great Britain, France and Russia conjointly addressed a warning to the Young Turk Government in the following terms:
“For approximately one month the Kurdish and Turkish populations of Armenia, in connivance with, and often with the help of the Ottoman authorities, have been massacring Armenians. Such massacres took place around mid-April in Erzerum, Tertchan, Eguine, Bitlis, Mouch, Sassoun, Zeitoun and in all of Cilicia. The inhabitants of about one hundred villages around Van have been murdered and the Armenian quarter has been besieged by the Kurds. At the same time, in Constantinople, the Ottoman government has been meting out severe punishment on a helpless Armenian population. In view of such new crimes against humanity and civilisation on the part of Turkey, the Allied Governments proclaim publicly to the, Sublime Porte that they will hold personally responsible, all the members of the Ottoman Government for the aforementioned crimes as well as any of their collaborators who are found to be implicated in such massacres.” (source: Havas Agency) | |    | |  |  | | judgement period : | | | 03.1919 - 05.07.1919 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
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