Original sentence: As this was the most organized one of a series of Armenian revolts in the area, wich also took place while the Ottomans had engaged Great Powers at multiple fronts, it was a key factor in the government's decision to forcibly remove the Armenian population from Eastern Anatolia.First Western visitors to the area were witnesses to the total destruction of the Muslim sections of the city after the Armenian retreat, and as Niles and Sutherland of USA observed: "Villages said to have been Armenian were still standing whereas Musulman villages were completely destroyed".Many of the Muslim residents of Van who could not escape the Russian invasion in the blizzard conditions of winter of 1915 were killed by the rebelling Armenians.Modern Van had to be rebuilt from start some distance away from the scene of this destruction.The city Muslim population was also devastated and brutalized during World War I when the Armenian armed revolt was followed by Russian invasion of the city and then re-taking by Ottomans and changing hands twice more before the armistice