ArmInfo. On April 24, 1915, mass arrests of representatives of the Armenian intelligentsia began in Constantinople, so the "Pandora's box" was opened, which resulted in the death of millions of Christians in the Ottoman Empire. This was written by a Russian political figure, a member of the Fair Russia party, director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Central Asia, Semyon Bagdasarov.
"This will then be Operation Nemesis - an act of retribution against the executioners, with whose consent, one of the most terrible atrocities of the XX century took place.
41 people decided the fate of millions, they were responsible for the terrible extermination of millions of Christians.
The "executioners" were successively destroyed over several years, including members of the Young Turk triumvirate - Enver Pasha, whose name was mentioned by the Turkish president at the parade, Kemal Pasha, Talaat Pasha. But that will be after. And in the beginning, there was fear, humility, submission, and the silent acceptance of fate by millions of Christians.
It was a consistent and relentless plan of extermination. The atrocities were strictly religious and ethnic in nature, and their name is the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
Retribution has found the murderers of the Armenian people, but their death has not drowned out the pain, this wound will bleed. But that will be after. Rivers of blood will flow first. Just think about these terrible figures: in the period from 1915 to 1923, one and a half million Armenians were killed, over a million Greeks from Asia Minor, 850,000 Assyrians, more than half a million Yazidis, 250,000 Pontic Greeks, and a community of 200,000 Russian Molokans was exterminated in the Kars region.
Russian Russian Russians-Molokans are not much known about the fate and terrible fate: they were settled mainly in the area of the city of Kars, which was liberated from the Ottoman yoke as a result of the Russo - Turkish war of 1877-1878 by the forces of the Caucasian army under the leadership of Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-Melikov and served as foragers of the Russian army. They were slaughtered in the same way as other Christian peoples, and their villages and monuments were also destroyed by Turkey. The pain won't go away, and the scar from this wound will never heal. 106 years later, " Bagdasarov wrote.