Beginning on April 24. 1915. hundreds of Armenian religious. political. and intellectual leaders were rounded up. exiled and eventually murdered. Soon thereafter. 250.000 Armenians serving in the Ottoman Army during World War I were disarmed and placed in forced labor camps where they were either starved or executed. The Armenian people. deprived of their leadership and young ablebodied men. were then deported from every city. town. and village in the Ottoman Empire. During these death marches. the men and older boys were quickly separated from the others and executed. The women. children. and the elderly were marched for weeks into the desert. and the majority of the deportees died from forced starvation. disease. and massacres. As a result of the Armenian genocide. the Armenian population was effectively eliminated through a carefully executed government plan. The Armenian genocide is one of the worst crimes against humanity that history has ever seen.
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