These people. just like you and me. were killed because of who they were. and even today. 81 years later. this chills us to the bone. The atrocities began on April 24. 1915. when 200 Armenian religious. political. and Intellectual leaders from Istanbul were arrested and exiled from their community in the Ottoman capital. Over the next 8 years. more than 1 million men. women. and children experienced deportation. forced labor. and in some cases. torture and extermination. This tragedy set the tone for an entire century in which crimes against humanity plague our history books and continue to cover the front page of newspapers. I am convinced of one thing--the Armenian genocide existed.
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