The Armenian genocide: The Turkish side of the story.

Byker

2015-04-17 00:02:53 UTC

Stanford University Turkish Student Association
http://sutsa.stanford.edu

Don't forget these folks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_genocide

Sample:

"You have undoubtedly heard of the Assyrian massacre of Khoi, but I am
certain you do not know the details.

"These Assyrians were assembled into one caravansary, and shot to death by
guns and revolvers. Blood literally flowed in little streams, and the entire
open space within the caravansary became a pool of crimson liquid. The place
was too small to hold all the living victims waiting for execution. They
were brought in groups, and each new group was compelled to stand over the
heap of the still bleeding bodies and shot to death. The fearful place
became literally a human slaughter house, receiving its speechless victims,
in groups of ten and twenty at a time, for execution.

"At the same time, the Assyrians, who were residing in the suburb of the
city, were brought together and driven into the spacious courtyard of a
house [...] The Assyrian refugees were kept under guard for eight days,
without anything to eat. At last they were removed from their place of
confinement and taken to a spot prepared for their brutal killing. These
helpless Assyrians marched like lambs to their slaughter, and they opened
not their mouth, save by sayings "Lord, into thy hands we commit our
spirits. [...]

"The executioners began by cutting first the fingers of their victims, join
by joint, till the two hands were entirely amputated. Then they were
stretched on the ground, after the manner of the animals that are slain in
the Fast, but these with their faces turned upward, and their heads resting
upon the stones or blocks of wood Then their throats were half cut, so as to
prolong their torture of dying, and while struggling in the agony of death,
the victims were kicked and clubbed by heavy poles the murderers carried
Many of them, while still laboring under the pain of death, were thrown into
ditches and buried before their souls had expired.

"The young men and the able-bodied men were separated from among the very
young and the old. They were taken some distance from the city and used as
targets by the shooters. They all fell, a few not mortally wounded. One of
the leaders went to the heaps of the fallen and shouted aloud, swearing by
the names of Islam's prophets that those who had not received mortal wounds
should rise and depart, as they would not be harmed any more. A few, thus
deceived, stood up, but only to fall this time killed by another volley from
the guns of the murderers.

"Some of the younger and good looking women, together with a few little
girls of attractive appearance, pleaded to be killed. Against their will
were forced into Islam's harems. Others were subjected to such fiendish
insults that I cannot possibly describe. Death, however, came to their
rescue and saved them from the vile passions of the demons. The death toll
of Assyrians totaled 2,770 men, women and children."
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