Edited sentence: As a result, they formed small Russian-sponsored forces to locally harrass Turkish authority.Clearly, it was a two sided brutality, be it a genocide or not.Complete villages were burnt to ground, women raped, etc.Hence, Armenians had the room and power (especially later backed by Russian soldiers) to force their will on local Turks.Ottomans fought on a very wide front, and ahd no resources to face the Armenian uprising.Their path to independece was very similar to other minorities under Ottoman rule, with one exception: They were did not face an Ottoman army at the beginning of their fight for independence, beacuse of the first world war.There are apparently countless stories on the Turkish side, telling what has happened before the So-called genocide