Հայոց ցեղասպանության «շարքային» իրականացնողները. մուսուլման կանանց մասնակցության գործառութային առանձնահատկությունները

Abstract

To understand mass violence, massacres, genocides, as well as to prevent their organization and implementation it is necessary to conduct a research of convictions of different social groups, the concerns they have, their goals and motives of participation in mass violence.

In general, it is a common belief that the implementation of mass violence is the priority of men, that women in their nature are not inclined to commitment of cruelty. In contrast with the existing stereotypes researches have recently shown, that the “human resource” implementing mass murders and genocides is in fact replenished by such marginalized groups as women and children who do not yield to men by their cruelty.

In the article the functional peculiarities of participation of Muslim women are grouped and illustrated with examples in the mass murders and genocide committed against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20 th century. Muslim women have often appeared to be in the role of initiators, immediate participants, undertakers, assistants, sneakers, burglars and abductors.