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 there 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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