In early 1915 the Ottoman Turkish Government perpetrated the senseless killing of over 1.500.000 Armenian people. They began by rounding up. arresting. and then exterminating 200 leaders of the Armenian community. In the years that followed. more than half of the entire Armenian population suffered the same fate. All who remained. including women. children. and the elderly. were deported to the remote deserts of DerelZor. They were forced to travel in the wilderness without any provisions. eventually dying. one by one. from starvation. exposure. disease. or from sheer physical exhaustion. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people were heartlessly murdered. simply because of their ethnic heritage.
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