It was the first modern example of what we now call genocide. The American Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire rt the time was Henry Morgenthau. Ambassador Morgenthaus account of the genocide Is clear. "When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations." he stated. "they were merely giving a death warrant to a whole race. they understood this well. and. In their conversations with me. they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact. I have by no means told the most terrible details. for a complete narration of the sadistic orgies of which these Armenian men and women were the victims can never be printed In an American publication.
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