Women were raped or forced into prostitution. Thousands of men. women. and chlildren were forced to leave their villages and either killed outright or sent on death marches through the desert. where they suffered horribly from disease and starvation. When it was all over. nearly 10 years later. 11/2 million Armenians were dead--victims of torture. executions. and forced laborand hundreds of thousands of others were refugees. The terrible results of this systematic persecution can still be seen today: where once over 2 million Armenians lived in Ottoman Turkey. less than 80.000 live in the region today. Many years have passed since the Armenian genocide. but we must never forget what happened to the Armenians of Ottoman Turkey solely because of their ethnicity.
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