I believe it is fitting to remember the suffering of the Armenian people. Between 1915 and 1923. the Ottoman Government sanctioned the murder of over 1.5 million Armenian Christians and drove hundreds of thousands more permanently away from their ancestral homeland under the guise of PanTurkism. Entire villages of Armenians were forcibly deported. thousands more peasants were kidnaped and exiled. Many or most of the deportees died of starvation. disease. or exposure. Large portions of the Armenian intelligensia and professional classes were abducted and simply slaughtered. After the First World War. the Armenians sent a delegation seeking justice to the peace conference at Versailles.
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