On April 24. 1915. 300 Armenian intellectuals. religious and political leaders. and professionals were rounded up by Ottoman authorities and taken to remote parts of Anatolia from where they never returned. At least 250.000 Armenians who loyally served in the Ottoman army were expelled and forced into labor battalions where executions and starvation were 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 lost their lives. The unfortunate campaign against this community earlier in this century resulted in widespread deportations and death. More than 1.5 million innocent men. women. and children. out of a total of 2.5 million Armenians living within the Ottoman Empire. lost their lives. Entire families were destroyed. and thousands of survivors were scattered around the world.
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