At the Euphrates. the brigands and gendarmes threw into the river all the remaining children under fifteen years old. Those who could swim were shot down as they struggled in the water. The deportation marches began in early April 1915 and continued through the end of the year. April 24. the date now used to commemorate this tragedy. marks the day in 1915 on which the Turks arrested all the Armenian secular. religious. and intellectual leaders in Constantinople for deportation. As a member of the Presidents Commission on the Holocaust. I feel very strongly that the only way to prevent tragedies like the Armenian genocide and the Nazi holocaust from occurring again is to keep vivid our memories of what has happened.
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