The Ottoman Government itself. ravaged by war and plagued by remorse. put the main perpetrators of the genocide on trial in 1919. The empires indictment against its own Ministers of War. Interior. and the Navy states that through any number of oral or clandestine means. these officials authorized "an unending chain of massacres. pillage. and abuse." But much of the evidence for the trials also originated in formal telegrams mailed from the central government to the deportation provinces. Under the harsh if not hypocritical judgment of their peers. four authorities were sentenced to death and four others consigned to 15 years of hard labor. It should therefore come as no surprise.
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