The mountainous lands of Armenia
Populated since prehistoric times
Was the site of the Biblical Garden of Eden
And the Armenian highlands surround Mount Ararat
Upon which Noah’s ark came to rest
They were appropriately the first nation in the world
To adopt Christianity in AD 301
As its official state religion
The
Christian Armenians lived
Under
the ottoman empire’ oppressive yoke
For
almost four centuries
When
in august 1896
A
small band of Armenian freedom fighters
Seeking
international recognition of their plight
Raided
the headquarters of the Ottoman Bank in Istanbul
They
murdered the guards
And
took more than 140 staff hostage
However,
their plan backfired
When
it brought down upon their heads
The
wrath of their Turkish masters
And
provoked the first Armenian holocaust
When
Mobs of Muslim Turks
Massacred
more than 50,000 Armenians
This
was however spectacularly surpassed
Almost
20 years later
When
in the spring of 1915
A
concerted effort by the Kaisers allies in Istanbul
To
systematically set about the removal
Of
their Armenian problem
And
the Muslim overloads ordered
The
Butchery of one and a half million
Armenian
Christian souls
And
providing the Germans with a template for the future
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