Pick you own number, it doesn't have to be true

Many of the facts regarding numbers, locations, and the context of forced relocations are disputed by reputable experts on both sides.

The basic facts supporting a legal standard are far from established.

For example, the resolution asserts that 1.5 million Armenians perished, but documents in the archives of our own State Department conflict with this number.

The preliminary Peace Conference report of March 29th 1919 (attended by Secretary of State Lansing) cites 200, 000 Armenian deaths by massacre. The report of G.R. Montgomery of December 29, 1922 states a pre-war Armenian population of 1,600,000 and a post-war Armenian population of 1,104,000 meaning only 496,000 perished of all causes (not proportionately out of line with all other population losses in the region of all causes).

If the numbers are that much in error or dispute in our own US records, what other facts are in error?


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