From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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Subject: Role of Armenian doctors in the genocide of 2.5 million Muslims.
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 17:33:56 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <schoinas.725176151@cs.wisc.edu> schoinas@fox.cs.wisc.edu (Yannis Schoinas) writes:

>it must be pretty cold up there in Stockholm, right? I 've heard that low 
>temperatures can be the cause of significant brain damage. It seems that
>it's true. 

Well, it could be your head wasn't screwed on just right, "yanikian".
The manifesto of the Hunchak Committee openly stated that 'the most
favourable time for an overall rebellion of Ottoman Armenians, is the
time when the Ottoman State is at war.' The First World War was
therefore the opportune time the Armenian committees had been seeking
for a quarter of a century. On the eve of war, in June 1914, Armenian
committees convened a congress in Erzurum, resolving to continue the
struggle against the Ottoman State.

For Russia, on the other hand, the First World War was also the
opportunity she was awaiting to invade Eastern Anatolia. The Russians
resolved to exploit and make use of Armenians against the Turks as far 
as was possible. Agreement was reached between the Echmiazin Catholicate
and the Russian Caucasus Governor General under which Armenians would 
provide unconditional support for the Russians. The Catholicate was
later received by the Russian Tzar. In audience, he told the Tsar 'the
emancipation of the Anatolian Armenians was only possible through
secession from Turkish sovereignty, the establishment of an autonomous
Armenia under the protection of Russia.' This was a kind of alliance
between the Russians and the Armenians against Ottoman Empire.

The bloody struggle waged by Armenians against Turks and Kurds from then
on, can be followed from the historical documents. Before the Ottoman
Empire entered the First World War, Armenian gangs armed and equipped
in Russia, infiltrated Eastern Anatolia. This was followed by the
arming of Armenians in Eastern Anatolia with Russian weapons. With the
declaration of war by Russia on the Ottoman Empire, both Russian
Armenians and Anatolian Armenians moved against the Ottoman Empire. 
Russians, disarmed Moslems in places they occupied in Eastern Anatolia,
arming the Armenians with the weapons confiscated from Moslems, paving
the way for aggressions by Armenians on a disarmed and innocent Moslem
population.

Armenian gangs perpetrated acts of sabotage, destroyed telephone cables,
blew up bridges, blocked passes, set up ambushes, attacked security
stations and small Turkish outposts behind the Ottoman Army lines on the
one hand, and on the other ruthlessly attacked Turkish villages,
slaughtering the Turkish population indiscriminately, women, children,
old and young alike. Innocent people were one by one cruelly bayonetted
to death, or massacred with axes and swords, or else shut up in mosques
or in schools and then burnt alive.

Widespread Armenian revolts broke out in regions of Van, Sivas and Maras.
The Ottoman Army, while fighting to prevent the Russian invasion, also 
had to deal with Armenian gangs who hit from behind. The Armenian
genocide of the Muslims spread to all parts of Eastern Anatolia.
Starting from late 1914, Armenians committed widespread massacres
in Eastern Anatolia, because the arena was left to the Armenians.
Almost every Turkish town and village from Erzincan up to Azerbaidjan
suffered large scale massacres and genocide by Armenians.

The Ottoman Army, liberating Trabzon, Bayburt, Erzincan, Erzurum, 
Kars and other regions from the Russians, saw that the cities and their 
villages had been destroyed and burnt, people slaughtered, massacred.
The massacres conducted by Armenians, which became a black stain for
humanity, shocked and disgusted even the Russian, British, German,
Austrian, French and American authorities.

Almost every Ottoman document is related to Armenian massacres and 
cruelties. The inhuman treatment, cruelties, atrocities, genocide by 
Armenian gangs perpetrated against innocent Moslem Turkish and Kurdish
people, are sufficiently reflected in historical documents. Even today
over seventy-five years later, the terrifying screams of the victims
of these cruelties can be heard.

    (Acting Commander of Erzurum and Deveboynu regions and Commander
     of the Second Erzurum Artillery Regiment Prisoner of War,
     Lieutenant Colonel Toverdodleyov)

"...We learnt the details this incident from the Commander-in-Chief,
 Odishelidge. they were as follows:

 The killings were organized by the doctors and the employers, and the
 act of killing was committed solely by the Armenian renegades...
 More than eight hundred unarmed and defenceless Turks have been
 killed in Erzincan. Large holes were dug and the defenceless 
 Turks were slaughtered like animals next to the holes. Later, the
 murdered Turks were thrown into the holes. The Armenian who stood 
 near the hole would say when the hole was filled with the corpses:
 'Seventy dead bodies, well, this hole can take ten more.' Thus ten
 more Turks would be cut into pieces, thrown into the hole, and when
 the hole was full it would be covered over with soil.

 The Armenians responsible for the act of murdering would frequently
 fill a house with eighty Turks, and cut their heads off one by one.
 Following the Erzincan massacre, the Armenians began to withdraw
 towards Erzurum... The Armenian renegades among those who withdrew
 to Erzurum from Erzincan raided the Moslem villages on the road, and
 destroyed the entire population, together with the villages.

 Odishelidge himself told us that all the Turks who could not escape
 from the village of Ilica were killed. Their heads had been cut off
 by axes. He also told us that he had seen thousands of murdered
 children. Lieutenant Colonel Gryaznov, who passed through the village
 of Ilica, three weeks after the massacre told us the following:

 There were thousands of dead bodies hacked to pieces, on the roads.
 Every Armenian who happened to pass through these roads, cursed and
 spat on the corpses. In the courtyard of a mosque which was about
 25x30 meter square, dead bodies were piled to a height of 140 
 centimeters. Among these corpses were men and women of every age,
 children and old people. The women's bodies had obvious marks of
 rape. The genitals of many girls were filled with gun-powder..."

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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