A reporter noted that children under 15 were thrown into the Euphrates to be drowned. women were forced to desert infants and to leave them by the roadside to die. young women and girls were appropriated by the Turks and thrown into harems. They also reported on the murder and torture of men and the turning of women and children into the desert where thousands perished of starvation. Unfortunately. the persecution of the Armenians did not end in 1923. but continues today. Since 1988. the NagornoKarabakh conflict involving Armenia and Azerbaijan. has left more than 1.500 Armenians dead and hundreds of thousands of refugees in the three territories. A withering blockage of economic disruption has made everyday life a struggle for Armenians. Acquiring necessities for survival has become a great obstacle.
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