Deir ez-Zor camps | |
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Concentration camp | |
Coordinates | 35°20′00″N 40°9′00″E / 35.33333°N 40.15000°E |
Known for | Mass murder of Ottoman Armenians during the Armenian genocide |
Location | Deir ez-Zor, Ottoman Empire |
Operated by | Ottoman Empire |
Operational | 1910s |
Inmates | Armenians |
Killed | 150,000 |
The Deir ez-Zor camps were concentration camps[1] in the heart of the Syrian desert in which many thousands of Armenian refugees were forced into death marches during the Armenian genocide. The United States vice-consul in Aleppo, Jesse B. Jackson, estimated that Armenian refugees, as far east as Deir ez-Zor and south of Damascus, numbered 150,000, all of whom were virtually destitute.[2]