Sultan Mehmet VI and Grand Vizier Damat Ferid Pasha , as representatives of government of the Ottoman Empire during the Second Constitutional Era , were summoned to the Paris Peace Conference by US Secretary of State Robert Lansing . On 11 July 1919 , Damat Ferid Pasha officially confessed to massacres against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and was a key figure and initiator of the war crime trials held directly after World War I to condemn to death the chief perpetrators of the Genocide . The military court found that it was the will of the CUP to eliminate the Armenians physically , via its Special Organization . The 1919 pronouncement reads as follows : After the pronouncement , the '' Three Pashas '' were sentenced to death in absentia at the trials in Constantinople . The courts-martial officially disbanded the CUP and confiscated its assets and the assets of those found guilty . The courts-martial were dismissed in August 1920 for their lack of transparency , according to then High Commissioner and Admiral Sir John de Robeck , and some of the accused were transported to Malta for further interrogation , only to be released afterwards in an exchange of POWs . Two of the three Pashas were later assassinated by Armenian vigilantes during Operation Nemesis
Operation Nemesis
Operation Nemesis
Armenian Genocide