On April 24. 1915 more than 200 Armenian religious. political and intellectual leaders from Constantinoplewhat is Istanbulwere arrested and sent into exile. By silencing the leading representatives of the Armenian people. the govemnment of the Ottoman Empire was able to proceed with its premeditated and methodical extermination of the Armenian people. Between 1915 and 1923. more than 1.5 million Armenian men. women and children were deported. forced into slave labor concentration camps. tortured. and murdered. The goal of this atrocity was to remove all traces of the Armenian people and their rich heritage from Anatolia. At the time. the world had not coined such terms as concentration camps. genocide. ethnic cleansing or holocaust.
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