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I n April 1915, hundreds of Armenian leaders of Constantinople Meh were arrested and deported. In May 1915, med Talat P asha Minister of the interior requested that the relocation and settlement of Armenians be legalized, giving the Ottoman government military authori zation to deport anyone it "sensed" was a threat to national security. W hat followed has been documented mainly by American diplomats like  Ambassador Henry Morgenthau Sr.( 1913 – 1916) and German like Major General Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressentein, who noted that " The Turkish policy of causing starvation is an all too obvious proof… for the Turkish resolve to destroy the Armenians ." Swedish ambassador and military attache On July 7, 1915, dispatched a two-page report to Stockholm, beginning with the following information: "The persecutions of the Armenians have reached hair-raising proportions, and all points to the fact that the Young Turks want to seize the opportunity since d