Original sentence: Over 60 years had passed since the Ottoman Empire had embarked on the campaign to exterminate its Armenian population, which was largely concentrated in its eastern provinces and referred to at the time as Western Armenia.The survivors of the massacres and deprivations commonly seen in the death marches found refuge in countries in the Middle East and in Western Europe and the USA.While the key ringleaders of the genocide were executed in the 1920s by Armenians, the Ottoman Empire's successor, the Republic of Turkey, effectively took a hold of all the possessions Armenians left behind and for decades vociferously insisted that a genocide had not taken place
Edited sentence: Later on Armenians have been branding these series of events as genocide claiming that the Ottomans had tried to kill every Armenian in the Empire.Over 60 years had passed since the Ottoman Empire had a war with Russia, in which some Ottoman-Armenians in that area were attacking and killing other Ottoman civilians, supporting the Russians.The Ottoman government relocated the Armenians in the war zone to another part of the Empire too keep them out of trouble.The survivors of the so-called massacres and deprivations commonly seen in the death marches found refuge in countries in the Middle East and in Western Europe and the USA.While the key ringleaders of the genocide were executed in the 1920s by Armenians, the Ottoman Empire's successor, the Republic of Turkey, effectively took a hold of a large amount of previously Ottoman land