100 years ago today marked the beginning of the first genocide of the 20th century – the systematic annihilation of between 1 and 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman empire. Eight years ago I wrote a short essay on why remembering this massacre is important. The message is worth repeating.
Just FYI, probably the first genocide of the 20th C was actually of the Herero in what was then German South West Africa, in 2004.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocide