24 abr 1915 ano - April 1915 - The days that followed the uprising, a sizable portion of the Armenian elites (23,405 people out of a community of 150,000) was swept up, tortured, deported to Angora, and killed. Minister of the Interior Talat Pasha justified these arrests with reference to the uprising at Van and the intervention of Russian troops that evacuated 210,000 people threatened with annihilation.
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24 abr 1915 ano
Agora
~ 110 years ago