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With one fell swoop. the leadership of Armenia was destroyed and the flame of the Armenian culture extinguished. In the months following the execution. Turkey began a program of rounding up Armenian religious. intellectual. and political leaders and deporting them to Anatolia where they were systematically executed. In the months following. over 250.000 Armenian soldiers serving In the Ottoman army were disarmed and placed In forced labor battalions. Those that did not succumb to the ravages of famine. disease. and exhaustion were executed by the Ottoman army. The Armenian civilians remaining. the women. seniors. and children left behind. were deported from their cities and towns. The men