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The Main Causes Of The Armenian Genocide

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The Armenian Genocide was a very bad thing during a very bad time. One of the main causes of the genocide was the intolerance of a tyrannical regime. During this time it caused a lot of different problems for the armenians. During this time there were about 1.5 million Armenians living in the empire in 1915 and almost 1.2 million people died during the genocide. This event caused a lot more things to go on in the future because of how bad it really was. During this time people were also dying from different things that was going on as well. Some of the things like hydration, starvation, and also a lot of different types of diseases that were going around. Also a lot of the Armenian children were removed from their families and converted to islam. During the court proceedings after the war had ended in 1918 nearly all of them were found guilty of treason, massacres, war crimes, and the majority of them were sentenced in absentia to death. Many of these reported incessantly about the ongoing violence and massacres. Several published reports and memoirs, books, and photographs of the events. The events that happened during the Armenian genocide was very disturbing as to why and how it happened. For the Armenians it was mainly the women and kids who were forced to be converted to islam. Another measure of the genocidal process is deleting all traces of the population who have been massacred or driven away by such deportations. Women were raped and sold in slave

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