Fortunately. for the time being. these governments took up the case of the Armenians and urged the Turkish authorities to make reforms that would help the situation. The Turks promised to do something about it. but they felt that such a promise was extorted from them at the instigation of Armenian leaders. They were intensely angry. and they did not forget this. They seemed determined to teach the Armenians a lesson. and in the course of the First World War that lesson was administered to Armenians indiscriminately. regardless of age and sex. in the form of wholesale massacres. forced deportation. and famine. This murderous machinery of genocide was put Into effect in 1915. First all Armenian community leaders were arrested. imprisoned. and then murdered.
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