Hundreds of thousands of Armenians were then uprooted from their villages. Women and children were forced to march through the Syrian desert for weeks on end. and. of course. most of them did not survive that ordeal. From 1915 through 1922 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives. American Ambassador Henry Morgenthau wrote: When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations. they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race. I understood this well. and in their conversations with me. they made no particular attempt to conceal this fact. They made no attempt to conceal this fact.
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