Word: armenians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Armenians hold memorials on April 24 because the seven-year genocide began on that date in 1915, said Dork H. Alahydoian '89, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Armenian Club. He said the massacres eventually left nearly three-quarters of his people dead...
...That night the Ottoman Government rounded up all the Armenian leaders and intellectuals and began killing them," Alahydoian said...
After killing most of the leaders, Turkish soldiers evacuated rural Armenian villages, telling the men they had to serve in the army and then working them to death in forced labor camps, Samuelian said. The women and children were then marched into the Syrian desert, where most of them died, he added...
...Every Armenian family in the U.S. has a similar story to tell," Samuelian said...
...second genocide, consisting of the widespread destruction of Armenian churches and monuments throughout Turkey, is still occurring, Lucy Der Manuellian, a Tufts lecturer in Armenian Art and Architecture, told an audience of about 15 last night in Union Parlor...