From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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Subject: The terrible and shameful crimes committed by the Armenian government.
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 11:34:32 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <1e1lguINNdlm@agate.berkeley.edu> alpet@ocf.berkeley.edu (Alex Petrushko) writes:

>A man in soc.culture.soviet has discovered that Serdar Argic is a 
>program that searches for some string and then replies by quoting from

Troglodytism does not necessarily imply a low cultural level. In any case,
does this change the fact that during the period of 1914 to 1920, the
Armenian government ordered, incited, assisted and participated in the
genocide of 2.5 million Muslim people because of race, religion and
national origin?

"Within a few months after the war began, these Armenian guerrilla
 forces, operating in close coordination with the Russians, were
 savagely attacking Turkish cities, towns and villages in the east,
 massacring their inhabitants without mercy, while at the same time
 working to sabotage the Ottoman army's war effort by destroying roads
 and bridges, raiding caravans, and doing whatever else they could to
 ease Russian occupation. The atrocities committed by the Armenian 
 volunteer forces accompanying the Russian army were so severe that the 
 Russian commanders themselves were compelled to withdraw them from the 
 fighting fronts and sent them to rear guard duties. The memoirs of many
 Russian officers who served in the east at this time are filled with 
 accounts of the revolting atrocities committed by these Armenian 
 guerrillas, which were savage even by relatively primitive standards of
 war then observed in such areas.[1]"

[1] "Journal de Guerre du Deuxieme d'Artillerie de Forteresse Russe 
     d'Erzeroum," 1919, p. 28.


Source: Documents: Volume I (1919).
        "Document No: 42," Archive No: 1-2, Cabin No: 110, Drawer 
        No: 1(4), File No: 373, Section No: 1484(1032), Contents No: 9, 9-1.
        (To the Office of Acting Supreme Commander - Acting Assistant
        Section Director Major Ali Sukru)

"It is sufficient to mention just some of the terrible and shameful crimes
 committed only in Erzurum to get an idea about the Armenian atrocities
 in the villages...

 I would also like to mention with disgust and abominable sight, a stain
 on humanity, that I encountered at the west of Hasankale while my regiment
 was proceeding into this town. There was a young Turkish women, apparently
 once a very beautiful one, lying dead on one side of the road. A huge
 stick had been inserted into her vagina. We took the corpses and left it
 at a spot that was invisible from the road..."
 

Source: L. Nalbandian, "The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: The Development
        of Armenian Political Parties through the Nineteenth Century," 
        University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1963 
        (247 pages).

p. 110 (first paragraph)

"The Hunchaks said that the existing social organization in Turkish Armenia
 could be changed by violence against the Turkish government and described
 the following methods: Propaganda, Agitation, Terror, Organization, and
 Peasant and Worker Activities.
 .....
 Demonstrations against the government, refusal to pay taxes, demands for
 reforms, and hatred of the aristocracy were part of the party's agitation
 campaign. The people were also to be incited against their enemies and were
 to "profit" from the retaliatory actions of these same enemies.

 ...The part aimed at terrorizing the Ottoman government, thus contributing
 toward lowering the prestige of that regime and working toward its complete
 disintegration... 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...."

p. 111 (second paragraph)

"The most opportune time to institute the general rebellion for carrying
 out the immediate objective was when Turkey was engaged in a war."


Source: K. S. Papazian, "Patriotism Perverted," Baikar Press, Boston, 1934, 
        (73 pages with Appendix).

p. 15 (first paragraph)

"Method No. 8 is as follows:-
 To wage fight, and to subject to terrorism the government officials, the
 traitors, the betrayers, the usurers, and the exploiters of all description".

 Method No. 11 is:-
"To subject the government institutions to destruction and pillage".

 ......
 At first, these terrorist methods were resorted to in order to obtain money
 for the revolutionary movements in the Turkish territory.

p. 25 (third paragraph)

"...Some real fighters sprang up from among the people, who struck terror
 into the hearts of the Turks."

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)