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what
hen
re why
economic development. The Genocide was a

political

means to stop this ascent and seize the wealth

his proposal in a letter to the government of the

activist

Vrtanes

Papazyan

presented

that the Armenians had built through decades of

First Republic. “I don’t think you have forgotten

work. Although the Armenian Genocide had been

April 24, 25 and 26. These were the days when

planned as early as 1911-12, the Young Turks used

Constantinople and other villages of Armenia

the opportunity provided by the start of the First

witnessed the monstrous plan to arrest and murder

World War to carry it out.

hundreds of Armenian intellectuals. 760 martyrs
fell on these bloodied streets of ours, hostage to

how many people died
in the Armenian Genocide?
Before the First World War, there were more than
two million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire.
Around one and a half million Armenians were killed
between 1915 and 1923, and the remaining were
either forced to convert to Islam or fled to find
shelter in other countries.

when was April 24 first marked
as a day of mourni