Systematic massacres took place in 1894-1896 when Abdul savagely killed 300,000 Armenians throughout the provinces.  Massacres recurred, and in 1909 government troops killed, in the towns of Adana alone, over 20,000 Christian Armenians.

This culminated on April 24^th 1915, when the Ottomans unleashed a genocide firestorm that murdered 1.5 million Armenian Christians. It was the night of April 24, 1915, when the Armenian intellectuals, professionals, editors, and religious leaders in Constantinople were rounded up by the Ottoman authorities, and almost all of them were executed. In the years that followed, three out of every four Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were systematically annihilated by their own government: 1.5 million people. The majority of Armenians alive today are descendants of those few who survived.

The Ottomans were creative when it came to all sorts of tortures. They not only crucified the Christians at times they used a hot poker -  a red hot metal rod that is inserted through the anus which the expert executioner is able to avoid puncturing the heart and the victim could live up to two days before he dies since the bleeding is minimized as the hot rod cauterizes the wound. President Erdogan of Turkey who has denied this genocide is an evil man.  All Muslim men are evil.

Armenian women, children, and elderly  forced deportation gave rise to some of the most hellish scenes in recorded history. Some Armenian women and children were offered the alternative of conversion to Islam and subsequent slavery in Turkish homes, but it is generally held that only a thousand or so accepted. The rest were driven from their homeland at bayonet-point, and forced to run a vicious gauntlet of soldiers and marauding tribes people. "Women who lagged behind were bayoneted on the road, or pushed over precipices, or over bridges," writes the historian Arnold Toynbee

The whole course of the journey became a perpetual struggle with the Muslim inhabitants. Detachments of gendarmes would go ahead, notifying the Kurdish tribes that their victims were approaching, and Turkish peasants were also informed that their long-waited opportunity had arrived. The Government even opened the prisons and set free the convicts, on the understanding that they should behave like good Muslims to the approaching Armenians. Thus every caravan had a continuous battle for existence with several classes of enemies -- their accompanying gendarmes, the Turkish peasants and villagers, the Kurdish tribes and bands of  brigands. Here the Turkish thugs would fall upon the women, leaving them sometimes dead from their experiences or sometimes ragingly insane.

After spending a night in a hideous encampment of this kind, the exiles, or such as had survived, would start again the next morning. The ferocity of the gendarmes apparently increased as the journey lengthened, for they seemed almost to resent the fact that part of their charges continued to live. Frequently any one who dropped on the road was bayoneted on the spot. The Armenians began to die by hundreds from hunger and thirst. Even when they came to rivers, the gendarmes, merely to torment them, would sometimes not let them drink. The hot sun of the desert burned their scantily clothed bodies, and their bare feet, treading the hot sand of the desert, became so sore that thousands fell and died or were killed where they lay. Thus, in a few days, what had been a procession of normal human beings became a stumbling horde of dust-covered skeletons, ravenously looking for scraps of food, eating any offal that came their way, crazed by the hideous sights that filled every hour of their existence, sick with all the diseases that accompany such hardships and privations, but still prodded on and on by the whips and clubs and bayonets of their executioners.

"The passage of rivers, and especially of the Euphrates, was always an occasion of wholesale murder," writes Toynbee. "In a loop of the river near Erzinghan ... the thousands of dead bodies created such a barrage that the Euphrates changed its course for about a hundred yards."

The end result of these torments was near-total extermination. A typical convoy consisting of 18,000 souls, just 150 women and children reached their destination. A few of the rest, the most attractive, were still living as captives of the Kurds and Turks; all the rest were dead. “The last survivors often staggered into Aleppo [Syria] naked," writes Toynbee; "every shred of their clothing had been torn from them on the way. Witnesses who saw their arrival remark that there was not one young or pretty face to be seen among them, and there was assuredly none surviving that was truly old ..."

Armenians were not the only Christians to be massacred. Over 3.5 million Christians were murdered by Turkish persecutions from 1894-1923. 

GREEKS
1914	400,000	conscripts perished in forced labor brigades
1922	100,000	massacred or burned alive in Smyrna
1916-1922	350,000	Pontions massacred or killed during forced deportations
1914-1922	900,000	perish from maltreatment, starvation and massacres; total of all other areas of Asia Minor
TOTAL:	1,750,000	Greek Christians martyred 1914-1922
ARMENIANS
1894-1896	300,000	massacred
1915-1916	1,500,000	perish in massacres and forced deportations (with subsidiaries to 1923)
1922	30,000	massacred or burned alive in Smyrna
TOTAL:	1,800,000	Armenian Christians martyred 1894-1923
SYRIANS AND NESTORIANS
1915-1917	100,000	Christians massacred

Following are the skeletons of just 15 Armenian Christians out of 1.5 million out of the 60,000,000 million Christians who have been murdered by Islam over the past 1400 years. 

Again  - Let us pledge that we will never forget all those murdered by Islam.

Let us build a memorial titled “The Tears of Jihad” and commemorate the memories of these 270,000,000 murdered kafirs: the Armenian and all other Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, and Blacks of the 1400 year Islamic Holocaust.