This observance takes place every April. for it was in that month in 1915 that more than 200 Armenian religious. political and intellectual leaders were arrested in Constantinople and murdered. Over the next 8 years persecution of Armenians intensified. By 1923 more than 1.5 million had died and another 500.000 had gone into exile. At the end of 1923. all of the Armenian residents of Anatolia and western Armenia had been either killed or deported. The genocide was criticized at the time by U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau. who accused the Turkish authorities of. quote. giving the death warrant to a whole race. unquote.
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