Of course it was, as well as the earlier 1894 genocide.
Islam, an intolerant and ignorant neurosis, masquerades as
a religion when in fact it's simply another dictatorial system.
The Armenian Christians, earlier inhabitants of the the Fertile
Crescent, were seen by the Ottoman paranoids as subversives
having affinity w/the Russian people and their orthodox faith.
Hence the Ottomans decided to get rid of them. Period!