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    SERVICES OF COMMEMORATION TO MARK THE END OF WORLD WAR I

    Aysor
    Nov 11 2009
    Armenia

    Today marks the 91 anniversary of signed Armistice that ended the
    First World War.

    The First World War involved 38 of 59 existing that times independent
    states, for about 73.5 million people were mobilized. The First World
    War left for about 20 million people dead and 20 million wounded and
    3.5 million injured.

    The German Empire lost its colonial possessions and was saddled with
    accepting blame for the war. Austria-Hungary was also partitioned,
    largely along ethnic lines, into several successor states including
    Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, as well as adding
    Transylvania to the Greater Romania who was allied with the victors.

    The Russian Empire, which had withdrawn from the war in 1917 after
    the October Revolution, lost much of its western frontier as the
    newly independent nations of Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania,
    and Poland were carved from it. The Ottoman Empire disintegrated
    and was to be partitioned by the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920. However,
    Treaty of Sèvres still isn't ratified.

    This brought big crash for Armenians since Turkey took advantage
    of war and started killing Armenians. The Armenian Genocide was
    centrally planned and administered by the Turkish government against
    the entire Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. It was carried
    out during W.W.I between the years 1915 and 1918. The Armenian
    people were subjected to deportation, expropriation, abduction,
    torture, massacre, and starvation. It is estimated that one and a
    half million Armenians perished between 1915 and 1923. There were an
    estimated two million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire on the
    eve of W.W.I. Well over a million were deported in 1915. Hundreds of
    thousands were butchered outright. Many others died of starvation,
    exhaustion, and epidemics which ravaged the concentration camps. Among
    the Armenians living along the periphery of the Ottoman Empire many
    at first escaped the fate of their countrymen in the central provinces
    of Turkey. Tens of thousands in the east fled to the Russian border to
    lead a precarious existence as refugees. The majority of the Armenians
    in Constantinople, the capital city, were spared deportation. By 1923
    the entire landmass of Asia Minor and historic West Armenia had been
    expunged of its Armenian population. The destruction of the Armenian
    communities in this part of the world was total.

    As Big Ben chimes 11 a.m. in London marking eleven o'clock on eleventh
    day of eleventh month people remember that war which left 20 million
    dead is over.
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