Photos That Captured the Most Chilling Moments in History

Armenian Genocide

A cruel Turkish official teases starving Armenian children with bread in the midst of the genocide. The Armenian genocide was the systematic and mass ethnic cleansing of one million Armenians during WWI. Until WWII, this event was considered the greatest atrocity in history, but Turkey still denies that the deportation of Armenians was genocide or wrongful.

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