CHURCHILL AND THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Winston Churchill described the massacres [of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks] as an "administrative holocaust" and noted that "the clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act, on a scale so great, could well be. [...] There is no reasonable doubt that this crime was planned and executed for political reasons. The opportunity presented itself for clearing Turkish soil of a Christian race opposed to all Turkish ambitions, cherishing national
ambitions that could only be satisfied at the expense of Turkey, and planted geographically between Turkish and Caucasian Moslems."

Sounds very much as if he is describing genocide to me although the word was of course not coined until 1944 to describe the extermination of Jews by the Nazis...

Churchill, like David Cameron and David Lidington today, was a Conservative - you might expect present day Tories to follow the views of their renowned and illustrious predecessor, who is generally regarded as someone who knew what he was talking about...