Scholar Anssi Kullberg states that the " Russian suppression of the Caucasus " directed at the Crimean Tatars and Circassians , resulted in the Russian state " inventing the strategy of modern ethnic cleansing and genocide " . Paul Henze , meanwhile , credits the events of the 1860s in Circassia with inspiring the Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire , to whose lands the Circassians had been deported . Ellman , meanwhile , in a book review of Richmond 's '' Circassian Genocide '' , agrees that the term 's use is justified under the UN definition as referring to actions intending to destroy " in whole or in part an ethnic group " , with the part referring to those Circassians whom St Petersberg thought could not accept its rule
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Circassian genocide