Confronted with the threat of death. more than 1 million Armenians were forced to leave their homes and march hundreds of miles. while being denied food and water for the duration of this Journey. Hundreds of thousands died from the exhaustion of the march. and hundreds of thousands more from starvation. In all. more than 2 million Armenians were affected by the deportation policy. Those who svrvived the genocide fled throughout the world. Many emigrated to parts of the Middle East. Western Europe. and the United States. Others joined Armenians in the Soviet Union. where they founded an independent Armenian Republic in 1918.
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