It knew. Our Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Henry Morgenthau. telegraphed the following message to the American Secretary of State on July 16. 1915: Deportation of and excesses against peaceful Armenians is increasing and from harrowing reports of eyewitnesses it appears that a campaign of race extermination Is in progress under the pretext of reprisal against rebellion. Later. when Ambassador Morgenthau wrote a book about his experiences. he wrote: When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations. they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race: they understood this well and in their conversations with me they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact. 1 am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seems almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915. Oh. there were a few voices. there were a few leaders like Winston Churchill who tried to warn us. Churchill wrote the following In 1929: In 1915. the Turkish Government began and carried out the infamous general massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor ... the clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act. on a scale so great. could be. There is no reasonable doubt that this crime was planned and executed for political reasons. But. for the most part. nations did not learn from historythe world looked away and genocidal horrors revisited the planet.
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