What happened in 1915 to the Armenian people was genocide. At least 1.5 million Armenian men. women. and children perished in the bloody massacres that ensued. The rest of the Armenian people became homeless refugees. scattered to other nations. On July 16. 1915. U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau sent a telegram to the Secretary of State that read as follows: Deportation of and excesses against peaceful Armenians is increasing and from harrowing reports of eyewitnesses it appears that a campaign of race extermination is in progress .... The archives of the United States and of other nations are filied with material that document the premeditated extermination of the Armenian people. If we permit genocide and Inhumanity to go unacknowledged and unmourned. we make it more likely to reoccur.
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