Simultaneously Armenians serving in Turkeys armed forces were separated from their fighting units. disarmed and removed under heavy guards to the rear of fighting fronts. and then massacred by their Turkish comradesinarms. Then all ablebodied males in Armenian communities. ranging from 12 to 60 years old. were conscripted into "labor battalions." and soon these too were massacred. That left the women. the children. and the aged. These were removed from their homes. some were massacred in a few days. and others were deported to distant Mesopotamian and Syrian deserts. where they suffered slow death through starvation. Others were enslaved as servants and household help in Turkish. Kurdish. and Arab homes.
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