From that infamous date until 1923. 1.5 million Armenians died from the Ottoman Empires attempts to eliminate the Armenian people. As a result of this increased persecution. Armenian citizens were either massacred outright. or they were deported and subjected to various atrocities. including rape. torture. and mutilation. According to Henry Morgenthau. Sr.. the United States Ambassador to Turkey at that time: When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations. they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race. they understood this well. and. in their conversations with me. they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact. Most of those deported died of starvation. disease or exposure. Even the halfmillion Armenians who were fortunate enough to have escaped were brutally evicted from the country that they had called home for more than 3.000 years. They were still victims of the Ottoman Empires deliberate attempt to systematically exterminate the Armenian people.
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