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Deir ez-Zor
1915-16 — The terminus of the deportation columns: in the Syrian desert camps, the Armenians of Anatolia — driven from their homes by their own government under cover of war — are starved and massacred. Around a million to 1.5 million die. The word “genocide” was later coined with this crime in mind. Remember them.
This is one scene of Chapter 4 — The Widening War in The Great War, 1914–1918.
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