Fifty years after the Armenian Genocide, the Turkish government would refer to

the genocide of the Armenians as "alleged"15. There are so many facts that prove

that the Genocide did take place. The killing and torturing methods, the high

death tolls, and the subhuman conditions that were bestowed upon them, are all

certainties that make the genocide factual. How can they deny that it never

occurred if just coincidentally, millions of Armenians just perished off the face of

the earth? There are logical reasons and proof, from the stories of the survivors,

that the Armenians were indeed, annihilated by the Turks. There were many

onlookers who, in fact, witnessed the massacres committed and lived through the

awful reality of the genocide itself.

If the Turks deny to be held responsible for the killings of the Armenians,

then why were they deported and took on what they call death marches? More

than half of the Armenian population (men, women, and children) were forced to

leave their homes to go where they would meet their fatality. This survivor

describes the journey of the death marches "Anyone who would fall behind would

of the Armenians, are the subhuman conditions that usually led to painful deaths.

Armenians were basically puppet toys who were amusement for the Turks.

understands no righteousness and tolerates no principle which invests life with

of their husbands or father, a typical scenario17. "When the caravans reached the

pictures with the heads of Armenian men and women. Women were stripped of

described as the first genocide in the twentieth century. The people of Armenia

in a single day. According to a survivor who witnessed the suicides, "Virgin girls

supplies. One survivor remembers an incident while struggling to get a sip of

but it did occur and it's another fact that makes the Turks accountable for the

the Turks gathered them all up and poured kerosene over them and burned them.

hundreds of miles away. No one to witness the killings. No one to hear their cries

since there were no mattresses or pillows to lie on. Sometimes it would rain all

night and their clothing and blankets would be soaking wet from the rain, but at

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