Hello dear friends, Today marks the 104th anniversary of the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
The Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Holocaust, was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians, mostly citizens within the Ottoman Empire. The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported from Constantinople (now Istanbul) to the region of Ankara, 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders, the majority of whom were eventually murdered. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases—the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian Desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre. Other ethnic groups were similarly targeted for extermination in the Assyrian genocide and the Greek genocide, and their treatment is considered by some historians to be part of the same genocidal policy. Most Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide.
Armenian civilians, escorted by Ottoman soldiers, marched through Harput (Kharpert) to a prison in nearby Mezireh (present-day Elâzığ), April 1915
An Armenian woman kneeling beside a dead child in a field "within sight of help and safety at Aleppo
The remains of Armenians massacred at Erzinjan.
“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 with the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.”
Henry Morgenthau, American ambassador to the Ottoman
Empire, 1913–1916.1
for more information, you can simply google for "Armenian genocide"
also here is the link about the Armenian genocide
https://genocideeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/A-Brief-History-of-the-Armenian-Genocide.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide