President. each year thousands of Americans of Armenian ancestry commemorate April 24 as a day of mourning. On that day in 1915. a barbaric campaign aimed at removing all Armenians from Turkish soil was resumed in full force. By 1920. after a total of 25 years of systematic and merciless persecution. the Turks had massacred more than 11/2 million Armenians. and had deported to the Syrian desert another million. half of whom perished there or on the way by starvation. disease. exposure. and murder. Unfortunately. the experience of the Armenians in Turkey is not unique even in this. the 20th century. For many Americans. secure in a free society. these events seem remote and somehow unreal.
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