The Armenian Genocide

Armenia was once a great people with rich history, but the views of three young men changed it all. 
     The 'Young Turks' started out as junior officers in the Turkish army that wanted to guarantee basic rights, create a constitutional government, and simply improve the country as a whole.  These goals were greatly received by the Armenians in Turkey and all seemed well.  However, in 1913 three of the young turks took control of the government by a coup.  The three were Mehmed Talaat, Ismail Enver, and Ahmed Djemal.  Their goal was to unite all of the Turkic people, expand the borders of Turkey, and create a new Turkic Empire, Turan, with one religion, and one language.  But where does this leave the Armenians?  In 1914 when World War I broke out it was seen as the perfect opportunity to take care of the Armenians.  The Turks first disarmed the entire Armenian population, including some forty thousand fighting in the Turkish army.  Next, the decision was made to eliminate the entire population, by the 'Young Turks', and armed round ups began on April 24, 1915.  Men were hung, shot, jailed, tortured, and sometimes bayoneted by death squads.  Then the women, children, and elderly were told they were moving to non-military zones for their safety, but they were really death marches to the Syrian Desert.  In the end between one and two million Armenians were killed, nearly the entire population.
     After learning about this occurrence in history, I am truly disgusted.  To think that the history of an entire group of people is gone, no art, holy cities, nothing.  What bothers me the most about this whole ordeal is that the rest of the world just let this happen. Yes, the world was at war, but to ignore the complete devastation of a race is unacceptable.  They knew that children were being massacred, and that must have meant nothing to them.  This just reinforces how horrible a genocide is.