This particular collective victim. the Armenian peoples. remain convinced that its catastrophic confrontation with the 20th century has never received adequate recognition and understanding. not to mention a solution. The Armenian community. spread out into a worldwide disapora. believes Its tragic history to be "a forgotten genocide." The Armenian incidents were among the more brutal and costly human dislocations that occurred during the First World War in the crumbling Ottoman Empire. In June 1915. a deportation policy was announced to relocate the Armenians of the war zones in less critical areas. namely the desert regions of eastern Syria. From 191517 approximately 1 million people were marched from their homes in the eastern provinces and the coastal cities of Cilicia. There are some explicit accounts of internment camps and resettlement villages in the Syrian desert region. and many allege that the lack of adequate food and water caused many deaths. It has. therefore. been characterized as a deportation to death. with no real provision for a permanent resettlement at the relocation site. As a survivor of the Jewish Holocaust. I sympathize with the anguish and suffering that these Armenian people experienced and emphathize with the present generation who are frustrated by this grossly inadequate Justice.
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