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However, most who have published anything about it seem to omit two key and essential facts:
1. Who were the victims?
It was not simply an ethnic genocide against Armenians, but a predominantly religiously motivated genocide against Christians. It was Armenian Christians who were massacred en masse. It was the deliberate and systematic annihilation of one of the world's longest-standing Christian populations in Anatolia (present-day Turkey). Just to show how ancient it is: all seven churches to which the Apostle John wrote from the Isle of Patmos, his final book of Revelation, are located here. By the way: although it was the Armenian Christians who suffered the most, Assyrian/Syriac and Greek Orthodox Christians were also systematically murdered and expelled from Eastern Anatolia.
2. Who were the perpetrators?
They called themselves the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), popularly known as the "Young Turks." A liberal reformist movement whose main objective was to overthrow the Ottoman monarchy and establish a constitutional republic. Their motto, the same as the bloody French Revolution they idealized, was "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." In 1908, they successfully ended the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and, from 1909 to 1918, they ruled the twilight of the Ottoman Empire as a brutal dictatorship, carrying out genocides against the native Christian Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian populations, erasing nearly two thousand years of Christian civilization in Eastern Anatolia.
Question: Who were the masterminds of the CUP?
The London Times wrote on July 11, 1911, on page 5 of its newspaper (it can still be found in the archives of the national newspaper):
"It is a well-known fact that the Salonika Committee was formed under Masonic auspices with the help of the Dönmeh of Turkey, whose headquarters are in Salonika, and whose organization took, even under Abdul Hamid, a Masonic form. Emmanuel Carasso, Salem, Sassun, Fardji, Meslah, and Dönmehs such as Djavid Bey and the Baldji family, played an influential part both in the organization of the Committee and in the deliberations of its central body in Salonika.
Before it was called the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was called the Thessaloniki Committee. Right there, in the ancient city of Thessalonica—yes, the same ancient city where the Apostle Paul preached and for which he was violently expelled by the Pharisees (see Acts 17:5ff.)— a group of elite and wealthy Freemasons from the well-known Masonic lodge Macedonia Risorta.
Some of them were "Dönmeh." What's that?
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica article:
– "At the beginning of the 20th century, the Dönmeh, well represented in the professional classes, were active in the Young Turk movement and the 1908 revolution."
It wasn't until October 29, 2019, that the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution that finally and officially recognized before the entire world the atrocities that occurred during the Armenian Genocide.
So, what was the first mass genocide of the 20th century? Without a doubt: the Armenian Genocide.
Who were the victims? Christians, primarily Armenians, but also Assyrians and Orthodox Christians.
Who were the perpetrators? The political organizations of the Young Turks and the Masonic lodges.
Now you know.