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From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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Subject: Day and night Armenians were rounding up male inhabitants...
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Date: 6 Apr 93 00:20:06 GMT
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In article <734048492@locust.cs.duke.edu> wiener@duke.cs.duke.edu (Eduard Wiener) writes:
> Sure it joined you by ballot in 1918! And I suppose that
> Northern Bukovina (where I was born), which has always had
That's why zoologists refer to you as a 'fecal shield'. Colonel Semen
M. Budienny, a subsequent Soviet military fame, said about the
Armenian genocide of 2.5 million defenseless Turkish and Kurdish
women, children and elderly people during his visit to Anatolia
in June 1919 that
"the Armenians had become troublemakers, their Hinchakist
and Dashnakist parties were opportunist, serving as lackeys
of whatever power happened to be ascendent."
In September 16, 1920, Major General W. Thwaites, Director of
Military Intelligence, wrote to Lord Hardinge, Under-Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs:
"...it is useless to pretend that the Armenians are satisfactory
allies, or deserving of all the sympathy to which they claim."[1]
[1] F.O. 331/3411/158288.
In the Special Collection at Stanford Hoover Library, donated by
Georgia Cutler, the letter dated Nov. 1, 1943 states that
"Prescot Hall wrote a large volume to prove that Armenians were
not and never could be desirable citizens, that they would
always be unscrupulous merchants."
Source: Documents: Volume I (1919).
"Document No: 50," Archive No: 4/3621, Cabin No: 162, Drawer
No: 5, File No: 2905, Section No: 433, Contents No: 6, 6-1, 6-2.
(To 36th Division Command - Militia Commander Ismail Hakki)
"For eight days, Armenians have been forcibly obstructing people from
leaving their homes or going from one village to the other. Day and night
they are rounding up male inhabitants, taking them to unknown destinations,
after which nothing further is heard of them. (Informed from statements
of those who succeeded in escaping wounded from the massacres around
Taskilise ruins). Women and children are being openly murdered or are
being gathered in the Church Square and similar places. Most inhuman and
barbarous acts have been committed against Moslems for eight days."
"Document No: 52," Archive No: 4/3671, Cabin No: 163, Drawer
No: 1, File No: 2907, Section No: 440, Contents No: 6-6, 6-7.
(To: 1st Caucasian Army Corps Command, 2nd Caucasian Army Corps
Command, Communications Zone Inspectorate - Commander 3rd Army
General)
"As almost all Russian units opposite our front have been withdrawn, the
population loyal to us in regions behind the Russian positions are
facing an ever-increasing threat and suppression as well as cruelties
and abuses by Armenians who have decided to systematically annihilate
the Moslem population in regions under their occupation. I have
regularly informed the Russian Command of these atrocities and
cruelties and I have gained the impression that the above authority
seems to be failing in restoring order."
Serdar Argic
'We closed the roads and mountain passes that
might serve as ways of escape for the Turks
and then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
(Ohanus Appressian - 1919)
'In Soviet Armenia today there no longer exists
a single Turkish soul.' (Sahak Melkonian - 1920)
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