You said: “Kurds are muslims.”
Kurds are not all Muslim. The percentage of Muslim Kurds in Iraq is high. But not so in Syria.
Some are Christian, Jewish and even atheists.
You said: “And they were the primary murderers in the Armenian genocide.”
Some were involved, others helped some escape. I’m not convinced they were the primary elements. They long ago admitted their involvement in it, unlike Turkey. They have open honest relationships with the Armenians.
Kurds have received the same treatment that the Christians did in Turkey. As did the Alevi, Ezidi, Greeks, Syriacs and Jews.
Kurdish Accounts of the Armenian Genocide
Menushehr was my friend. She used to tell me about the genocide. Said, they would chain people in groups called “Armenian chains.” Twenty to thirty per group, they would blindfold them and shoot them into mass graves.
They made decrees that killing Armenians was a duty, killing them was a virtue, that if you kill an X number of Armenians, the doors of hell will become the door of Heaven. Due to their naivete and ignorance, people started killing the Armenians, took their young girls and made them their wives, took their belongings. Meanwhile, the poor Armenians were telling them, “Don’t do it, today it’s our turn, tomorrow will be yours.”
I will tell you what my father told me (my father is dead now). He was involved in it; he killed Armenians. He participated in the genocide. In our region we had 10 to 15 Armenian villages. They either became Muslims or were killed.
They weren’t harming anyone, but the government started killing them. There is a gorge called “Christian Gorge.” It is a deep gorge, where part of the genocide took place. They killed the people and threw them in the gorge. Right on those mountains, they would grab small kids, 6 months old, 1 year-olds, they would grab their arm and throw them into the gorge.
It was like that. They had two boys and one girl. There were also rumors that there was an epidemic that killed them, but in reality, as you said, the boys were killed and the girls were saved for marriage. When they would capture them in groups and kill them the way the Nazis killed the Jews in the concentration camps, they would tie them up with ropes, take them to Zere and kill them en masse. The attractive women were spared. The rest were killed.
https://ayfwest.org/news/kurdish-accounts-of-the-armenian-genocide/