As de facto rulers , the Three Pashas have been considered the masterminds behind the Armenian Genocide . After the war the three were put on trial ( in their absence ) and sentenced to death , although the sentences were not carried out . Talaat and Djemal were assassinated in exile in 1921 and 1922 by Armenians ; Enver was also killed by an Armenian in Tajikistan in 1922 while trying to raise a Muslim anti-Russian insurrection
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Three Pashas