From our oarliest forebears. who massacred other bands for rights to a watering hole. to todays complex national and religious conflicts. humans unable to dominate their neighbors have all too often turned to the solution of eliminating their neighbors. Every April 24. people from all over the world pause to recall one particular tragedy. notable not just for Its scope and horror. but because all too many of us have never heard of it. and others would choose to forget. The genocidal deportation and massacre of the peaceful Armenian people between 1915 and 1923. as part of a program to deport the entire Armenian population from the homeland of the Ottoman Empire. led to the death of more than 1.5 million people. either directly at the hand of Ottoman authorities or by starvation. The remaining survivors of this atrocity still live with horrors that few people In the world can appreciate. Only those persecuted to death by such Infamous tyrants as Hitler or Pol Pot in Cambodia can truly understand their agony.
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