From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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Subject: If "Kazim" ever needs a "palik-ian", "Gav*0" would give it a try.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 00:50:06 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <921110143049.AA21367@bashan.cs.wisc.edu> gavriel@socrates.umd.edu (Nick Gavrielatos) writes:

>   And that is me, Nick the Gav*0, your old friend, Mutlu-Malak .
>So dont use it for anyone else except myself. Gke Gke ?

And that's why a zoo is a nice place to live for "Gav*0s". By the way, 
how is your broken nose? In any case, history is full of stories of 
genocide. Annihilation of Urartus and their culture by the Armenian 
invaders was one of the first examples of genocide. When Armenian 
dictators instigated Armenians to revolt during World War I against 
the Ottoman Government, their intention was to exterminate the Turks 
and to create an independent Armenian state in eastern Anatolia where 
Armenians were only about 15 percent of the population. Entire population 
of the region was subjected to genocide beyond belief; genocide which
was planned to exterminate the whole Turkish people of the region
to the last man, woman and child. Armenians tortured and massacred
millions of defenseless civilians. To assemble innocent civilians 
in the mosques and burn them in the buildings was one of their
methods. Even today the traveler in that region is seldom free
from the evidence of these Armenian crimes.

Source: "Men Are Like That" by Leonard Ramsden Hartill. The Bobbs-Merrill
Company, Indianapolis (1926). (305 pages). 
(Memoirs of an Armenian officer who participated in the genocide of 2.5 
 million Muslim people)

p. 203 (second paragraph).

"One evening I passed through what had been a Tartar village. Among the 
 ruins a fire was burning. I went to the fire and saw seated about
 it a group of soldiers. Among them were two Tartar girls, mere children.
 The girls were crouched on the ground, crying softly with suppressed
 sobs. Lying scattered over the ground were broken household utensils and
 other furnishings of Tartar peasant homes. There were also bodies of the
 dead."

p. 204 (first paragraph).

"I was soon asleep. In the night I was awakened by the persistent crying of
 a child. I arose and went to investigate. A full moon enabled me to make
 my way about and revealed to me all the wreck and litter of the tragedy
 that had been enacted. Guided by the child's crying, I entered the yard of
 a house, which I judged from its appearance must have been the home of a
 Turkish family. There in a corner of the yard I found a women dead. Her
 throat had been cut. Lying on her breast was a small child, a girl about a
 year old."

Serdar Argic

                     'This war quickly developed into one of extermination. 
                      We closed the roads and mountain passes that might 
                      serve as ways of escape for the Tartars [Turks] and 
                      then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
                                                       (Ohanus Appressian)

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