Britain. France. and Russia were stanch supporters of the Armenian cause. but. as all these governments were involved in the war against the Turks. they could not restrain the Turks in their inhuman excesses. In less than a year these callous and clumsy. but shrewd and wily Turks. succeeded in carrying out their design of ridding Turkey of its Armenian population through deportation. massacres. and slow death by famine and misery. - Today. 50 years after that tragic event. there are hardly any Armenians left in the historic Armenia that is part of the Turkish Republic. and only about 75.000 Armenians in certain Turkish cities remain of the once wealthy and prosperous Armenian community of about 2 million souls. Some fortunate ones who had survived this tragedy have since joined hands with their compatriots in the Russianheld portion of Armenia and have constituted their own Soviet Socialist Republic. On the 50th anniversary observance of this wanton genocide we do homage to the memory of its victims and wish peace and tranquillity to those living in a corner of their historic Armenia.
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