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The forgotten Armenian ‘genocide’

Some call the massacre of perhaps millions of Armenians nearly a century ago the first genocide of the 20th century

April 24 marks the 100th anniversary of what has been called the forgotten genocide and the Armenian massacres, when hundreds of thousands — perhaps millions — of Armenians were killed during World War I at the hands of the Ottoman Empire's ruling Committee of Union and Progress, popularly known as the Young Turks. Here's a breakdown of what happened.

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