As a result. thousands of innocent civilians losl their lives and thousands more witnessed the destruction of their homes--all because the Ottoman Goverrmerd wanted to teach them a lesson. When the Armenians sought to publicize their plight by seizing a government building In Constantinople. government forces Instigated a vicious pogrom during which over 50.000 perished. Several years later during the First World War. Armenian serice In the Allied cause prompted the Turkish authorities to order the deportation of almost the entire Armenian population from their homeland to two distant provinces of the Turkish Empire. Syria and Palestine. Well over one million died dur mg this long forced march. many thnusands at the hands of government soldiers and many more from disease and malnutrition.
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