Armenian Holocaust
The Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, traditionally among Armenians, as the Great Crime, was the Ottoman Government's Systematic Extermination of its Minority Armenian Subjects from their historic homeland in the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey.
It took place during and after World War I and was implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied Male Population through Massacre and Forced Labor, and the Deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on Death Marches to the Syrian Desert.
The total number of people killed as a result has been estimated at between 1 and 1.5 Million. The Assyrians, the Greeks and other Minority groups were similarly targeted for Extermination by the Ottoman Government, and their treatment is considered by many historians to be part of the same Genocidal Policy.
The Starting Date of the Genocide is conventionally held to be April 24, 1915, the day when Ottoman Authorities arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals & community leaders in Constantinople. Thereafter, the Ottoman Military uprooted Armenians from their homes and forced them to march for hundreds of miles, depriving them of food and water, to the desert of what is now Syria.
Massacres were indiscriminate of age or gender, with rape and other sexual abuse commonplace. The majority of Armenian Diaspora Communities were founded as a result of the Armenian Genocide.
Picture: Turkish Official teasing starved Armenian children by showing bread, 1915


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