While there are some nations that object to the term "genocide." what took place in Armenia between the years of 1915 and 1923 was exactly that. a genocide. Whole communities were wiped off the face of the map. Over 1.5 million men. women. and children were deported. forced into slave labor. tortured. and exterminated by the Ottoman government of Turkey. What happened In those years was more than just a series of massacres carried out by the Turkish Government during a time of Instability. revolution. and war. It was the first example of genocide of the 20th century. a precursor to then Nazi Holocaust and the other cases of ethnic cleansing and massive extermination that have so haunted our times.
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