On April 24. 1915. hundreds of Armenian religious. political. and intellectual leaders were rounded up. exiled and then murdered by the Ottoman Empire. This was the beginning of the Armenian genocide. During the next 8 years. the Empire conducted a systematic campaign of deportation against Armenian men. marching them out of their homes. Like their leaders before them. most of these men were then executed. The woman and children. left unprotected after the massive deportation and execution campaign. were then subjected to many of the brutal crimes against humanity which we now see taking place in the former Yugoslavia. The rape. torture. and starvation suffered by these innocent civilians is almost unthinkable. Unfortunately. unlike World War II. there were no Nuremberg trials for these crimes.
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