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...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...
Manuellian added that preserving examples of Armenian culture is important because the Turkish government wants to remove all traces of Armenian occupation of the land. Tour guides who mention Armenian culture are sometimes thrown in jail, she said...