More than 1 million Armenians died while many hundreds of thousands were condemned to involuntary servitude in Turkish households and others were sold to Arabs and Kurds as slaves. As if by some unaccountable stroke of fate. the Armenians in Turkey were singled out and carried off from an area three times the size of the New England States. with most of them doomed to certain death. The monstrous machinery which the rulers of Turkey had devised for bringing on this wholesale deportation and massacre worked so effectively and ceaselessly. that even before the end of that year they were congratulating themselves for ridding Turkey of its Armenian population. There are so many causes for this tragedy. so many alleged and actual reasons for Turkish cruelty toward the Armenians that it is not easy even now to list and catalog them in full. While I will try to enumerate and elaborate on some of these causes. it would be well to begin with some background information on Armenia and the Armenian people.
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