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The military court accused the members of the "Unification and Progress Committee" of fighting a war that did not conform to Millet's concept. Sultan Mohammed VI ordered the domestic military court to interrogate the members of the "Committee for Unity and Progress" regarding the imperial involvement in World War I. The military court found that the "Unification and Progress Committee" deliberately used a "special organization" to physically eliminate the Armenians. In January 1919, a report submitted to Mohammed VI accused more than 130 suspects, most of whom were high-ranking officials. Members of the Revolutionary Union, Hohannes Katznuni and Alexander Hadesyan moved to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, to seize power, and officially declared Armenia's independence on May 30, 1918. On May 28, 1918, a group of professionals in the National Assembly of Armenia declared the independence of the First Republic of Armenia. The arrested were transferred to two shelters near Ankara under the order of the Minister of the Interior Mohammed Talat that day, and most of them were expelled and killed. On April 24, 1915, the distinguished member of the Revolutionary Union was one of the Armenian intellectuals targeted in Constantinople. The Armenians agreed to be loyal to their government, but announced that they could not agree to other proposals. The members of the Union and Progress Committee asked the party to assist in the recruitment and instigated the Russian Armenians to rebel against the Russian army during the Caucasus campaign in order to subdue the Caucasus region. From July to August 1914, the 8th Congress of the Revolutionary Federation was a watershed.