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Armenian Genocide in 1915...
Armenian Genocide in 1915...
Item # 718419
April 16, 1915
EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, April 17, 1915
* Armenian Genocide - Holocaust - Massacres
* Ottoman Empire - Turkey
Page 4 has a one column heading: "CHRISTIANS IN GRAVE DANGER" (see images) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues that are not totally fragile from this era in paper. Rare as such.
Complete with 20 pages, a little irregular along the spine, generally nice.
AI notes: In April of 1915, the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire was already facing escalating persecution that would soon culminate in the Armenian Genocide. Although the genocide is officially marked as beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of hundreds of Armenian intellectuals in Constantinople, violence and repression had begun earlier in various regions. By mid-April, Ottoman authorities had initiated localized massacres and deportations in eastern provinces such as Van, Erzurum, and Bitlis, accusing Armenians of collaborating with the Russian enemy during World War I. In the days leading up to the large-scale crackdown, Armenian villages were raided, community leaders detained, and fears of extermination began to spread. April 16 thus falls within the critical prelude to the genocide’s full-scale implementation, marking the transition from political suspicion to organized ethnic violence.
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