With their leadership removed. the Turks next deprived Armenians of 250.000 of their young. ablebodied men who were serving In the Ottoman army at the time. These men were disarmed. placed in forced labor battalions. and either starved or executed. Severed from their leat etship and physical protection. the remaining Armenian population were deported from every city. town. and village in Asia Minor and Turith Armenla The ensuing march saw the torture. rape. and mutlation of defenseless women. children. and elderly before their subsequent death in the Syrian Desert. The Armenian genocide was a carefully executed government plan which effectively elminatod the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. I recommend that In com. memoration of this tragedy. we remember not only the many lives lost. but the spirit that ties on In the Armenian people.
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