Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Génocide arménien" in French language version.
« In its original 1892 program, the ARF outlined a worldview clearly influenced by Marxist historical materialism without using the word socialism. Thus, in contrast to the Hunchaks, the party avoided having to specifically define what it understood by socialism or a socialist society. The program declared the party’s intention to struggle against all exploiters, and in one memorable section discussed the ultimate futility of trying to persuade the exploiters to change their ways. It did not mention the Armenian bourgeoisie by name, but made reference to them (more precisely, one section of them) as the “monied-usurer class” (p‘oghatēr-vashkhaṛu dasě), and charged them with “often draining the blood of working people with iron claws hand-in-hand with the government officials, the nobility and the church.” »
« [Victims] were often held without food for days so they would be too weak to escape. »
« The differences between the Holocaust and the Armenian massacres are less important than the similarities—and even if the Armenian case is not seen as a holocaust in the extreme form which it took towards Jews, it is certainly the nearest thing to it. »