YEREVAN, 20 MAY, ARMENPRESS. “The most classic” example of a death march was set during the Armenian Genocide that took place in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. As “Armenpress” reports, this is what Professor of Law at Middlesex University of London and Dean of the Law Department Joshua Castellino wrote in his article released in the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. The part of his article about the Armenian Genocide has been included in a special annex published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia.

 “The historical facts show that the death march was perpetrated methodically and in a coordinated manner. It was an overtly planned genocide that the Turks managed to perpetrate through different measures, including atrocious killings, slowing starving people to death and depriving them of water and death caused by injuries and fatigue. It is assumed that this genocide was the cause of the murder of 1.5 million Armenians. Even though it is hard to specify the number of people who disappeared during the death march, the conditions under which the exiled Armenians died, what happened turns into one of the episodes in the history of mankind, even with the number of marches that are unique in their brutality and savageness,” mentioned Joshua Castellino.