World War I caused misery and misfortune to many peoples. some being innocent victims of that war. but none suffered such irreparable losses as did the Armenians -in Turkey. Early in the war the Turkish Government publicized spurious charges that certain Armenian elements were fomenting uprisings and revolutions in the country. and on the basis of such unproved charges the authorities proceeded to eliminate all of the 2 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. Their plan was to get rid of the Armenians through deportation. famine. and wholesale massacres. This hideous plan. carefully concealed until Turkeys entry into the war. was carried out in the course of 1915. Nearly all Armenians were uprooted from their homes. and many hundreds of thousands were massacred during the first few days of this forced deportation. while other hundreds of thousands were starved to death. Some saved their lives by escaping to nearby lands. and others were sold to Arabs. Kurds. and Turks as slaves.
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