Turkish officials arrested and exiled more than 200 Armenian political. intellectual and religious leaders. This symbolic cleansing of Armenian leaders began a reign of terror against the Armenian people that lasted for the next 8 years. and resulted in the death of more than 1.5 million Armenians. In the assault. another 500.000 Armenians were exiled from their homes. Acts of deportations. torture. enslavement and mass executions obliterated the Armenian population and changed the world forever. These mass exterminations and incidents of ethnic cleansing are the first examples of genocide this century. and have often been referred to as the precursor to the Nazi Holocaust. Mr.
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