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The Armenian Genocide

  • Documentary
  • History
  • War

March 22, 2005 (FR)

0h 57m

More than one million Armenians perished between 1915 and 1916 in massacres or brutal deportation programs. Turkey still denies it ever happened. Laurence Jourdan examines massacres of Armenians in the decades leading up to the mass murder, and the geopolitical situation both bef...

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