Victims reportedly died in mass burnings and by drowning, torture, gas, poison, disease and starvation.
Children were reported to have been loaded into boats, taken out to sea and thrown overboard, while rape was very often reported as well.
According to the website of the Armenian National Institute: “The great bulk of the Armenian population was forcibly removed from Armenia and Anatolia to Syria, where the vast majority was sent into the desert to die of thirst and hunger.”
Armenia, the Vatican, the European Parliament, France, Germany, Russia, Canada, Argentina and the US are among dozens of states and other bodies to formally recognise what happened as a genocide – but Britain is among those that have not.
