The Memorial to the Armenian Martyr's in Yerevan, Armenia is dedicated to the people who died in the genocide.
Considered the first genocide of the 20th century.
The Armenian Genocide also known as the Armenian Holocaust, Great Calamity (Մեծ Եղեռն "Mets Yegern") or the Armenian Massacres of 1915 — refers to the systematic slaughter and fatal deportation of hundreds of thousands to over a million Armenians.
The generalized "beginning" of the genocide was on April, 24th, 1915 when Turkish authorities ordered the arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals, in Constantinople. Most of the intellectuals were killed in the capital of Constantinople. After these actions, the Turkish began uprooting the Armenians from their homes , and forced them to march for hundreds of miles, which deprived them of food and water, to the concentration camps, in what is now Syria.
The massacres in Armenia were indiscriminate of age, or gender and widespread cases of rape and sexual abuse against women and children were now just a common thing.
