From: ptg2351@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Panos Tamamidis )
Subject: Re: A genocide in 1914: only 1,500 Turks remained.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:14:08 GMT

sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic) writes:

>Our "Hasan"? Left over from the breed that conquered the "delco". I 
>think of you in simpler terms: lazy. Well, anyway, leading the first 
>Armenian units who crossed the Ottoman border in the company of the 
>Russian invaders was the former Ottoman Parliamentary representative 
>for Erzurum, Karekin Pastirmaciyan, who now assumed the revolutionary 
>name Armen Garo. Another former Ottoman parliamentarian, Hamparsum 
>Boyaciyan, led the Armenian guerrilla forces who ravaged Turkish 
>villages behind the lines under the nickname "Murad", especially
>ordering that 

> "Turkish children also should be killed as they form a danger to the 
>  Armenian nation." 

>Another former Member of Parliament, Papazyan, led the Armenian 
>guerrilla forces that ravaged the areas of Van, Bitlis and Mush.

>In March 1915, the Russian forces began to move toward Van. Immediately,
>in April 11, 1915 the Armenians of Van began a revolt, massacring all 
>the Turks in the vicinity so as to make possible its quick and easy 
>conquest by Russians. Little wonder that Czar Nicholas II sent a 
>telegram of thanks to the Armenian Revolutionary Committee of Van in 
>April 21, 1915, "thanking it for its services to Russia." The Armenian 
>newspaper Gochnak, published in the United States, also proudly 
>reported in May 24, 1915 that 

>"only 1,500 Turks remained in Van the rest having been slaughtered."

>Source: Documents: Volume I (1919).
>        "Document No: 15," Archive No: 1/2, Cabin No: 113, Drawer 
>        No: 3, File No: 520, Section No: 2024, Contents No: 11-1; 11-3.
>        (19 Feb 330 '4 March 1915', District Governor Kemal)

>"List of male inhabitants of Mergehu Village murdered or annihilated 
> with the utmost savagery by local Armenians who joined Armenian gangs
> strengthening the Russian Forces:

> Names				Method of Annihilation
> -----				----------------------
>Haci Ibrahim, son of Abdi	Bullets and bayonet
>Abdi, son of Haci Ibrahim	Bullets and bayonet
>Reso, son of Abdi		Beaten and cut into pieces
>Sado, son of Omer		Beaten and cut into pieces
>Aso, son of Reso		Beaten and cut into pieces
>Kulu, son of Canko		Stabbed in the eye with a bayonet
>Musa, son of Canko		Bayonet in his eye
>Emin, son of Molla Hamit	Bayonet in his eye
>Molla Abdullah, son of Hamit	Bayonet in his eye
>Ibo, son of Haci		Bayonet in his eye
>Sado, son of Haci		Bayonet in his eye
>Abdullah, son of Canko		Slaughtered
>Ibo, son of Ahmet		Abdomen ripped open
>Ismail, son of Ibo		Burnt in fire
>Musto, son of Ozu		Bullets
>Mahmut, son of Seyyo		Slaughtered
>Kocak, son of Birro		Bullets
>Musto, son of Husnu		Bullets
>Uso, son of Alo			Bullets
>Maksut, son of Peri		Bullets
>Haci, son of Peri		Bullets
>Mehmet, son of Hasanali		Bayonet 
>Ibo, son of Hasanali	 	Bayonet
>Abdo, son of Mehmed		Bayonet
>Molla Suleyman			Burnt in oven
>Mazgi, son of Abdullah		Stabbed in abdomen by bayonet
>Sulis, son of Hasan		Bullets
>Mahmo, son of Mehmet		Stabbed with a dagger
>Murat, son of Hasan		Stabbed with a dagger
>Uso, son of Avci		Blinded with a bayonet
>Lesko, son of Mehmet		Stabbed with a dagger
>Abdullah, son of Kasim		Bullets
>Coban Abdullah			Bullets
>Seymo, son of Mumin		Bullets 
>Muammer, son of Reso		Bullets
>Paso, son of Merzi		Bullets
>Gulu, son of Bitor		Bullets
>Murat, son of Yusuf		Bullets and bayonet
>Cedo, son of Haci Ibrahim	Bullets and bayonet
>Faki Mehmet			Bullets and bayonet
>Silo, son of Abdulcebbar	Bullets and bayonet

> List of massacred females from the same village:

>Kasi, daughter of Huso and 
>wife of Haci Ibrahim		Bullets
>Fati, daughter of Isa,
>wife of Aduz			Bullets
>Zeresan, daughter of Amat,
>wife of Reso			Bayonet
>Gullu, daughter of Iyso		Cutting off her breasts
>Sulnu, daughter of Sulo,	Ripping open her abdomen and burning
>wife of Ibo			her baby in oven
>Fatma, daughter of Ibo 		Slaughtered and burnt in oven
>Fidan hatun			Burnt in oven
>Gulfizar, daughter of Hacihan,  
>wife of Musto			Slaughtered
>Rahime, daughter of Mehmet, 
>wife of Halil			Bullets
>Binefs, daughter of Haci Kerim,
>wife of Suleyman		Burnt in oven
>Mahiye, daughter of Ali, 
>wife of Sivno			Slaughtered
>Hati, daughter of Haci, 
>wife of Ahmet         		Slaughtered
>Hacer, daughter of Meho		Bullet and bayonet

> List of Females of the same village raped and murdered:

>Nadire, daughter of Haci, wife of Suvis
>Hani, daughter of Kulu, wife of Zerko
>Zaliha, daughter of Telli, wife of Silo
>Arap, daughter of Sami, wife of Hilo

> Wounded males and females of the same village:

> (a long list)

> List of massacred males and females at Istuci village:

>Mikail, son of Alo		Bullets
>Musto, son of Ismail		Bullets
>Dervis, son of Maksut		Bullets
>Ali, son of Nimet		Bayonet
>Esat, son of Kelo		Bayonet and bullets
>Isa, son of Nebi		Bayonet and bullets
>Cevher, son of Gani		Beaten by rifle butt
>Ziro, daughter of Hasan		Died from injuries
>Hazal, daughter of Ali, 
>wife of Acem			Died from injuries
>Hamsa, daughter of Huseyin,
>wife of Huseyin			Died from injuries

> List of raped women at Istuci village in life:

>Sabo, daughter of Maho		Virgin
>Miri, other daughter of Maho	Virgin
>Emine, daughter of Meho, wife
>of Sofi Salih
>Sahap, daughter of Ali, wife 
>of Nevruz
>Gullu, daughter of Mahi		Virgin

> List of persons attacked by Armenian gangs:

> (a long list)"

>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)