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Eternal Flame at Tzitzernagaberd Memorial in Yerevan

The Armenian Genocide refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction (genocide) of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I.

First the Armenians in the army were disarmed, placed into labor battalions, and then killed.

On the night of April 24, 1915, an estimated 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders were arrested in Constantinopole and later executed en masse by Ottoman authorities.

Finally, the remaining Armenians were called from their homes, told they would be relocated, and then marched off to concentration camps in the desert between Jerablus and Deir ez-Zor where they would starve and thirst to death in the burning sun.

Sources:
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The University of Michigan-Dearborn