Ottoman Genocide Begins: One Million Armenians Perish
Ottoman authorities rounded up 250 Armenian intellectuals on April 24, 1915, triggering a systematic campaign that killed between one and 1.5 million people through massacres and death marches. This catastrophe birthed the global Armenian diaspora and directly inspired Raphael Lemkin to coin the term "genocide" in 1943, establishing the legal framework for prosecuting such atrocities today.
April 24, 1915
111 years ago
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