But what is it that is remembered? Beginning on the night of April 23 and through the entire day of April 24. the plan began to unfold. Beginning on that infamous day. all prominent Armenians in Turkey were arrested and later deported to various parts of that countryonly to be executed there. Among them were clergymen. intellectuals. wellknown merchants. artisans. and othersin all about 1.000 persons representing all classes of the Armenian community in Turkey. But these were only the first group of victims of this wellorganized plan of genocide to destroy this small number of people in Turkey. Others followed within a matter of weeks. It soon became evident to all peoples in Turkey that Armenians were doomed to death and destruction. and that they were faced with a tragedy of national proportionsa tragedy which had been unheard of in the annals of civilization. In a period of less than 6 montbs the Ottoman government decimated the Armenians within its borders by massacres. deportation. famine. and other means. Only a small segment of the Armenian community succeeded in escaping. In the United States today we have several hundred thousand people of Armenian extraction.
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