| Armenians
had lived in their traditional lands for thousands of years. For
much of the last thousand years they had lived as an ethnic and
religious minority (Christian) in the Ottoman Empire. In 1915, during
the First World War, the Turkish government resolved the "Armenian
Question" by eliminating this population from the Ottoman Empire.
In February of 1915 the government ordered Armenian men serving
in the army disarmed. They were organized into labor groups and
eventually were killed. In April they rounded up and summarily arrested
Armenian community leaders and intellectuals. Nearly all of these
men were executed.
Part
of The Armenian Genocide exhibit |
