The following are excerpts from a book entitled "The Armenian Genodde which clearly explain the position of the Armenians THE Aarm Ax Guoczn19151918 In the spring of 1915. when European powers were involved in a struggle of life and death and could not or would not exert any Influence upon Turkey. the Turkish Government resolved to solve the Armenian Question once and for all and embarked upon the execution of the policy of mass extermination of the Armenians. On April 24. 1915. the Armenian intellectuals and national leaders of Constantinople and the provinces were arrested wholesale and were exiled to the interior of Anatolia. where they perished. either on the way or upon arrival at their destinations. Thereupon. after the civilian population was disarmed and the males drafted into the army. the villages were cut off. and the helpless victims were subjected to a systematic deportation and massacre at the hands of the regular army. the police and armed irregulars. In this manner. deportation of the whole Armenian villages and towns followed one after another. Nearly two million Armenian men. women and children were forcibly ejected from their homes and. amid indescribable sufferings. were driven to the deserts of Syria. The greater number of the males were brutally murdered on the way. women were dishonoured or seized for a life in the harem. and many of the children were islamized. The survivors were subjected to untold misery and suffering. Of the deported population. half perished on the way by outright slaughter. famine and disease. or because of the insufferable desert life. The remnants. upon reaching their desert destinations. were subjected again to wholesale massacres (DerZor. RasulAin). In some places the Armenians were not even deported. They were simply massacred or burnt alive on the spot. The entire property of the Armenians was either seized by the government or was looted by the mob or by highway bandits.
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