Through thick and thin throughout the early 1900’s, Armenians were targeted every day for everything they would do, with only perseverance and the will to fight back giving them a chance. The night of April 24, 1915 marked the first phase of the genocide, which is in present-day research usually described as elicitide and refers to the annihilation of the elite of the targeted group of Armenians residing both in Armenia and Turkey. Among those targeted, about 250 doctors, lawyers, politicians, government officials, teachers, writers, poets and other intellectuals who could become the core of a future resistance, were arrested that night and subsequently executed within 72 hours of being taken by the Turks. Just in Constantinople alone, 2,345 Armenian intellectuals…show more content… In early 1915, after the Armenian soldiers were disarmed and placed in labor battalions, they were severely abused and pushed beyond their limits in means to weaken them and any chance of a rebelling among them. In February 1915, the Turkish Government ordered these labor battalions to be liquidated, and by July 1915 approximately 200,000 Armenian soldiers had been murdered. Among those not executed or tortured by the Turks, 888,000 Armenians escaped the genocide to other countries and with only 78,000 remaining hidden in Armenia, but all surviving the massacre. The biggest parties of Armenians to flee to a different country were the 400,000 that fled to Russia, which helped lead to Armenia becoming part of the Soviet Union. Other countries the Armenians fled to were the United States, Germany, England, and Iran. The Armenian citizens who escaped, fled by foot, animals, carriage, water, and even tunnels. Any method of escape would be utilized to ensure the safety of one’s family. One unsuccessful and much too common story told among Armenians is of the woman who hid her children in bags attached to a horse, to
