Sr.. repeatedly protested the treatment of Armenians while the British Viscount James Bryce compiled a 684page report on the massacre with the help of Arnold Toynbee. Even the allies of the Ottoman Empire were horrified by this brutality. Otto Liman van Sanders. the German military adviser to the Ottoman Empire. personally intervened to prevent the deportation of Armenians from Smyrna in November 1916. Yet. perhaps the most convincing evidence of this tragedy is the trials for war crimes held by a liberal Ottoman government which took power in the aftermath of this massacre. The leaders of the Young Turk government were convicted in absentia for ordering this genocide.
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