The Armenian Genocide first started April 24, 1915 Turkish government officials imprisoned around 250 Armenian people in the city of Constantinople. Deportation, expropriation, starvation, torture abduction, and massacre of the entire Armenian population was a result of this. Deportation in a sense was a forced death march. They would march the Armenian people into the hot deserts of Syria in an attempt to kill them off by dehydration or starvation. Other Armenians were just blatantly murdered in the Ottoman Empire. They took nothing into account with their treatment. Not age or sex. In essence this was a ethnic cleansing of the Armenian people. Much like the Nazi's in WWII the Ottoman Empire leaders lead their people to believe that the Armenian people were inferior and a danger to their country. They portrayed this through propaganda etc. The goal was to create a country that was made completely of Turkic people.
Whenever anything happens like this it completely disgusts me. How ignorant, greedy, and black can someone's heart be that they are willing to massacre millions all because of something so insignificant such as their race is different than that of their own. And then on top of their actions they deny that it ever happened. How could you ever deny such a significant event?
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