From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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Subject: Only 1,500 Turks remained in Van, the rest having been slaughtered.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 22:32:30 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <9212141512.AA12329@kocrsw06.delcoelect.com> c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:

>re: "Schuerzinger" insults the silent memory of 2.5 million Muslim people.
>judging from the amount of crap coming out of your account, I do not
>find the memory of the '2.5 million' people that silent.

And I never can resist all that truth and beauty.

"Agitation and terror were needed to 'elevate the spirit of the people'...
 The people were also to be incited against their enemies and were to 'profit'
 from retaliatory actions of these same enemies. Terror was to be used as a
 method of protecting the people and winning their confidence in the Hunchak
 program. The party aimed at terrorizing the Ottoman government, thus 
 contributing toward lowering the prestige of that regime and working
 toward its complete disintegration. The government itself was not to be
 the only focus of terrorist tactics. The Hunchaks wanted to annihilate the
 most dangerous of the Armenian and Turkish individuals who were then
 working for the government as well as to destroy all spies and informers.
 To assist them in carrying out all of these terrorist acts, the party
 was to organize an exclusive branch specifically devoted to performing 
 acts of terrorism....The most opportune time to institute the general
 rebellion for carrying out immediate objectives was when Turkey was
 engaged in war..."[1]

[1] L. Nalbandian, "Armenian Revolutionary Movement," University of 
    California Press, 1963, pp. 110-111.

Source: K. S. Papazian, "Patriotism Perverted," Baikar Press, Boston, 1934.

pp. 17-18.

"It seems that terrorism against their own co-nationals has been a prominent
 part of the revolutionary activities of the Dashnag leaders of the Caucasus.
 Organized to fight the Turks, these chieftains have been more successful
 in their fight against their Armenian opponents in Turkey, and the Caucasus,
 very often defenseless and innocent."

p. 38.

"The fact remains, however, that the leaders of the Turkish Armenian section
 of the Dashnagtzoutune did not carry out their promise of loyalty to the
 Turkish cause when the Turks entered the war...and a call was sent for 
 Armenian volunteers to fight the Turks on the Caucasian front."

p. 38.

"Thousands of Armenians from all over the world, flocked to the standards of
 such famous fighters as Antranik, Kery, Dro, etc. The Armenian volunteer
 regiments rendered valuable service to the Russian Army in the years of
 1914-15-16."

Quotes from Admiral Bristol's March 28, 1921 letter on the Armenian 
genocide of 2.5 million Muslims.

 "While the Dashnaks were in power they did everything in the world to 
  keep the pot boiling by attacking Kurds, Turks and Tartars."

 "By massacring the Moslems; and robbing and destroying their homes; 
  and finally by starting an attack against the Turks which resulted 
  in a counter attack by the Turks, and then the Armenians deserted 
  and ran away."

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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