Today in Labor History April 24, 1915: The Turkish government arrested 250 Armenian intellectuals in Istanbul. This marked the beginning of the Armenian genocide. The Ottomans slaughtered one million Armenians during World War I, or 90% of the Armenian population. The genocide also destroyed two thousand year’s-worth of Armenian civilization in Asian Minor.
!["A LONG LINE THAT SWIFTLY GREW SHORTER One of the most striking photographs of the deportations that have come out of Armenia. Here is shown a column of Christians on the path across the great plains of the Mamuret-ul-Aziz. The zaptieths are shown walking along at one side." -Ravished Armenia, p. 10. By Unknown author - File:Ravished Armenia.djvu p. 10 [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18092075](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1049154 "\"A LONG LINE THAT SWIFTLY GREW SHORTER One of the most striking photographs of the deportations that have come out of Armenia. Here is shown a column of Christians on the path across the great plains of the Mamuret-ul-Aziz. The zaptieths are shown walking along at one side.\" -Ravished Armenia, p. 10. By Unknown author - File:Ravished Armenia.djvu p. 10 [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18092075")
