And on this date. April 24. 70 years ago. about 200 Armenian religious. political. and intellectual leaders were arrested in Constantinople and exiled or taken to the interior and murdered. Following the promulgation of Edict of Deportation on May 24. 1915. the slaughter continued until the Armenian genocide within the Ottoman Empire was virtually complete. As Henry Morgenthau. our Ambassador to Turkey at the time. who led the diplomatic effort to try to stem the bloodshed. stated in 1918: "I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the suffering of the Armenian race in 1915." It is inexplicable to me why the current Turkish Government would choose to deny the historical facts. so well documented by the press and by our own diplomatic personnel at the time.
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