Armenian genocide

It all began with the ottoman Empire which was ruled by the Turks who acquired the empire through conquest, the main city was Constantinople. they were at war with a few nations. A man named Sultan Abdul Hamid came to power. Under his rule, there would be a series of massacres occurred to frighten the Armenian people. The empire was at war with the allies in World War I, after suffering a string of losses, they retreated to continue their campaign to kill the Armenians. they hid the people in caravans to look like the troop transports, so if the allies had seen them, they would be killed. if they made it back to their lines, they were taken to camps to be worked to death or killed. the people were told it was a "resettling" program. in which most were forced to walk the destinations. the empire created small bands of people to specifically attack the convoys and kill the people in them. they also created other groups called butchers to "off" the rest of them. these crimes were not discovered until they declared a republic in 1923.