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📜 The Armenian Genocide (1915–1916)
During World War I, the Ottoman Empire under the Young Turk government systematically targeted its Armenian population.
Armenian men were often separated from their families and executed — shot, bayoneted, or killed in labor battalions.
Women, children, and the elderly were then forced on brutal death marches across hundreds of miles toward the Syrian Desert (areas like Deir ez-Zor). They were deliberately deprived of food and water, subjected to robbery, rape, and massacres along the way by Ottoman forces, paramilitaries, and local groups. Those who survived the marches faced starvation and disease in desert concentration camps.
Historians estimate 600,000 to 1.5 million Armenians perished through direct killings, death marches, and related atrocities.
This is one of the first major genocides of the 20th century and helped inspire the term “genocide” itself.
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