The Armenian Genocide was an systematic extermination of the Armenians by the Ottoman government. It is estimated that between 800.000 and 1.5 million people died. The Genocide started on April 24th when the authorities rounded up and deported 250 Armenian community leaders and intellectuals from Constantinople. The genocide continued during and after the first world war and Armenians were either simply killed, forced to to hard labour or sent on death marches to Syria. Assyrians and Greeks were treated in a similar manner as the Armenians. The Armenian Genocide is today by many recognized as the first systematic mass murdering (genocide) in history. However, other people deny that this was a genocide at all. Turkey, for example denies, that the term Genocide is applicable to the situation, while 29 other countries have officially recognized that it was a genocide.
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