This terrible episode has become the "forgotten genocide" of modern times. History records that it began in April 1915. when the Empire uprooted the Armenian inhabitants and forced them to migrate on foot. The letter recounts what happend: The Armenian people ... were ... deported from every city. town. and village of Asia Minor and Turkish Armenia. In most instances during the death marches. the men were quickly separated and executed soon after leaving town. The women and children were marched for weeks into the Syrian desert. thousands were seized along the way. forcibly converted to Islam. and raised in Turkish homes and harems. The majority of the deportees died of starvation and disease during the forced marches. Many others were murdered brutally. During the years 19151922. 1.500.000 Armenians were killed and more than 500.000 exiled from the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire.
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