Mount Ararat with the historic Khor Virap monastery visible at center-left

Genocide & Resilience

Death marches drove hundreds of thousands of Armenian deportees south and east through the Syrian desert toward Der Zor (Deir ez-Zor), the principal terminus of the deportation routes, where mass killings continued through 1916.

Death marches drove hundreds of thousands of Armenian deportees south and east through the Syrian desert toward Der Zor (Deir ez-Zor), the principal terminus of the deportation routes, where mass killings continued through 1916.

529Genocide & Resilience