This work is the first ever attempt to briefly introduce to a non–Armenian reader the Armenian Genocide, gone down in history as the first genocide of the XX century. Elucidated are the prerequisites and causes, political and national–racial motives, mechanisms and the scope of commission of the Armenian genocide, or Armenocide, as well as the issue of the responsibility of the Young Turks and their felonious leaders, who planned and brutally committed it.
A considerable space is given to the explication of the policy of the European Great Powers in the Armenian Question.
The author also dwelt on the issue of recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the international community and present–day Turkey.
V. B. Barkhudaryan
Academician of NAS RA