ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the how statistics remained the heart of the problem as we calculate the consequences of the massacres and count the dead. The first statistics on violence prepared by the Armenians was the "list of crimes alleged to have occurred." It was prepared in 1892, when the activities of Armenian organizations had increased and the Hamidiye Regime's bloody reaction realized. Today, accounting for the numbers of Armenians murdered in 1915 usually means calculating the number of Armenians who were massacred or died of other causes such as disease, hunger, exhaustion, the like during deportations or immediately after. The Muslim reaction to the actions of the Armenian organization in Istanbul in 1896 was bloody. At that time, research on the statistics of violence became one of the main activities of the Great Powers. The most problematic case in terms of calculating the number of victims was, and remains, that related to the deportations and massacres that started in 1915.
