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The Armenians were put through awful conditions and went through brutal treatment, most never making it out alive. The Turks had multiple ways of killing and torturing these people to die a slow and painful death. They initially summoned all the fit Armenian men to the government building and assured them that they were just being relocated and that no harm will be done to them. However, when the authorities gathered them, they threw the men in jail for several days and then marched out of town once released. At their first stopping ground, they were either shot or bayoneted to death. Then, the women, children and elderly were summoned in a similar way, except without the added jail time. What they were not expecting was the slow, painful fate …show more content…

“No mercy was shown for pregnant women or nursing mothers. If they would not go on, they were killed.” Some women and young children were abducted and placed in Muslim and Turkish homes where they suffered a loss of identity. They were taken along long roads and back roads until their lack of strength and energy was the cause of their death. They were first pushed southwestward to Aleppo, and then east, along the Euphrates River, to places that soon became immense and ruthless concentration camps, where “death came as a blessing,” to the handful of Armenian people that remained. By the end of the genocide in 1922, there were only about 388,000 Armenians left in the Ottoman Empire, compared to the two million at the start of the war in …show more content…

The remaining survivors immediately dispersed and settled down on two dozen countries across the world. Regardless of this brutal massacre that took place, Turkey, to this very day, continuously refuses to acknowledge that this genocide happened. The Turkish Republic adopted a policy to eliminate the charge of genocide and deny any claim of their desire to exterminate the Armenian population in 1923, the year that Turkey officially received international recognition as a Republic. As gruesome as it was, the “Armenian Question” (genocide) was quickly forgotten in the history of

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