It began on the evening of April 24. 1915 when over 200 Armenian intellectual. religious. and political leaders in Istanbul were imprisoned and later killed. In the following years from 1915 to 1923. Armenians were forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in eastern Turkey under the pretense of being removed from war zones and an invading Russian Army. The Turkish Government deported thousands of Armenians to the deserts of Syrian and surrounding regions. Typically. men and teenage boys were separated from the caravans very early in the deportation journey and were shot or butchered. The women and children continued on foot. sometimes for months. Along the way they were robbed. raped. and murdered.
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