Henry Morganthau, our ambassador in Constantinople during WWI, wrote two magnificent books about his experiences there, Secrets of the Bosphoros and Ambassador Morganthau’s Story. Both go into great detail on the depravity of the Turk. In the latter book he wrote:
“The real purpose of the deportation [of the Armenians] was robbery and destruction; it really represented a new method of massacre. When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact.”
The Turkish Mohammedan dogs are the most dangerous vermin on the planet and yet, Republican or Democrat, our leaders rush to accommodate them and advance their cause! America's laughable world view might, might, extend to the outer suburbs of Peoria, but no further!
Don’t forget the Germans, who lent technical help to the Turks and kept notes about how to commit mass murder effectively.
Remember, old Adolf got the idea from the Turks.
How is it ill-formed? Individual murder ("shooting the minority owner of a liquor store") is not destroying any "national, ethnic, racial or religious group" even in part. The key word here is "group": killing people of the group merely because they belong to the group. That was in evidence in the Armenian genocide as pregnant women were sadistically murdered.
The absence of formal orders is not a part of the definition, nor should it be. It is sufficient to note the absence of orders to stop the massacre, as any proper military would have done. The distinctions between the Holocaust of the Jews and the Holocaust of the Armenians implied in the Stanford letter are not difference of substance, as similar complexities could be found in the history of the Holocaust of the Jews.
The phrase "Nor were the Muslims ruthless killers of innocent children and women" is cleverly crafted implying that the perpetrators were everyone on the Turkish side or that there was only religious and no ethnic dimension to the massacre. That, too, is intended to mislead: in every genocide there are trigger-pullers, planners and the majority are by-standers.
Genocide in Smyrna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6YYy9PAee8