American Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at the time. commented: Whatever crimes the most perverted instincts of the human mind can devise and whatever refinements of persecutions and injustice the most debased imagination can conceive. became the daily misfortunes of this devoted people. I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915. Beyond the brutal deportations and heinous murders. the Ottoman Government attempted to obliterate all traces of the 3.000yearold Armenian civilization. Libraries. churches. and schools were destroyed. Books. paintings. and irreplaceable historical treasures were burned.
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