Mr. President. is so overwhelming that it begins even before the event itself took place. In April 1915. the Ottoman regime issued a proclamation requiring that all Armenians be deported to distant "vilayets" or provinces. most of them within eastern Turkey. The deportation of these Armenian men. women and children began. but instead of simply being an act of deportation. what occurred was merciless slaughter of these innocents. and subsequent memoranda that have been filed with the U.S. Department of State by missionaries. by businessmen. by diplomatic personnel. by educators. now available for review at the United States Archives. indicate that 600.000 Armenians alone died in the deportation carried out between April and December of the first year of that terrible several years of genocide that commenced in 1915. Six hundred thousand taken from their villages fur deportation never reached their ultimate destinations. One of those who documents this fact was the American consul posted to one of the major deportation provInces of eastern Turkey. Leslie A. Davis notes in a number of written reports sent to Washington that were never acknowledged in the public debate on the Armenian genocide until today that Americans living in the region labeled that area as the "slaughterhouse vilayet." In a December 30. 1915. dispatch to the U.S.
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