These massacres are viewed by scholars as beginning a process of exterminating the Armenian people which, in large part, culminated in the final process of genocide in 1915.[21][22][23] Much of this is apparent in the press articles themselves since they repeatedly place the massacres of 1915 in the context of the previous massacres.[15] Other scholars, such as the Soviet historians Mkrtich G. Nersisyan, Ruben Sahakyan, John Kirakosyan, and Yehuda Bauer subscribe to the view that the mass killings of 1894–96 during the Hamidian massacre were the first phase of the Armenian Genocide. Even though the Hamidian massacres ended in 1896, Armenians continued to be massacred during what many believed to be "peaceful times".[24] The massacres conducted during these times involved dislocation, disarmament, dispersion, and ultimately murder.[24]