What was a major consequence of the encomienda system used in Spain's Central and South American colonies?
A. The Catholic Church became the dominant landholder and
political power in Central and South America.
B. Indigenous peoples were able to organize movements to resist
Spanish colonial domination.
C. Spanish colonists grew wealthy by subjecting indigenous peoples
to lives of forced labor.
D. Colonial leaders quickly declared their political independence from
the Spanish Empire.

Iam told that hundreds if not thousands of these (armenians) were sent at once to the front ranks at the dardanelles, where death in a very short space of time is almost a certainty. the older men were then deported into the interior, while the women and children, when not carried off in an opposite direction, were left to shift for themselves as best they could. the terrible feature of this deportation up to date is that it has been carried out on such a basis as to render it practically impossible in thousands of cases that these families can ever again be reunited. not only wives and husbands, brothers and sisters, but even mothers and their little children have been dispersed in such a manner as to preclude practically all hope that they will ever see each other again. according to this excerpt, what does the author consider to be the worst part of the deportation during the armenian genocide?