Armenian intellectual. religious. and political leaders. were rounded up by Ottoman authorities. taken to remote parts of Anatolia and murdered. At least 250.000 Armenians serving in the Ottoman Army were expelled and forced into labor battalions where executions and starvation wore common. Men. women. and children were deported from their villages and obliged to march for weeks in the Syrian Desert where a majority of them perished. There was no shortage of contemporaneous newspaper accounts in the United States of the Ottoman Turkish atrocitiesa simple review of headlines appearing in the New York Times in mid1915 yields the following: "Wholesale Massacres of Armenians by Turks." "Tales of Armenian Horrors Confirmed." "800.000 Armenians Counted Destroyed." "Thousands "r-)test Armenian Murders." In fact. through a congressionally chartered organization called Near East Relief. Americans contributed $113 million in humanitarian assistance from 1915 to 1930 to help the surivors.
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