There were unbearable acts of torture. men were separated from their families and murdered. women and children were put on a forced march across the Syrian desert without food or water. Henry Morgenthau. the U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1916. recalled: When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations. they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race. they understood this well. and. in their conversations with me. they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact . . . I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.
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