From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet
Followup-To: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: The wholesale robbery and persecution of the Muslem population.
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 20:18:42 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Distribution: world

In article <1ii1ciINN3bp@network.ucsd.edu> dharkins@papillon.ucsd.edu (Dan Harkins) writes:

>>          I venture to guess that you were a sergeant major in the
>> Russian army. You were stationed in Angola, a long way from home.
>> Your wife had not come out to visit you. And you have lost your
>> brain cells. Any relationship to "virvir"? Well, I'll not waste words.
>>
>>  [ wasted words deleted ]

>Strike one. Strike two. Strike three. You're outta here! Not even close.

How strange. Is it possible that you didn't care what became of you now?
And so you sit alone in a "ucsd.edu" prison. Not a "Russian" or "Communist"
or "soldier" or "enemy" or any of those categories. Just-a-"harkins" who
cared for just-a-"virvir" for just-a-time more than anything else.

>> We need more "Harkins", I tell him. We're running out it.

>What you need is a good course in English. 

Is that why you frantically create a mask to hide behind, a
nonchalant sophisticated facade, to help you pretend, to
shield you from the glance that knows? You make me laugh.

>What you're running out of is grey matter. 

In "papillonian", "Harkins" = "it".

>Were you hired at Bell Labs on an "affirmative action" policy? 
>Not enough idiots on the payroll so they hired you.

As far as I know, "mutlu" is not from x-Soviet Armenia.

>My advice to you, Hasan: relax sphincter, remove head.

If a dog's prayers were answered, bones would rain from the sky.
Now, any comment? Poor "Harkins".

Source: "Adventures in the Near East, 1918-1922" by A. Rawlinson,
Jonathan Cape, 30 Bedford Square, London, 1934 (First published 1923) 
(287 pages).
(Memoirs of a British officer who witnessed the Armenian genocide of 2.5 
 million Muslim people)

p. 184 (second paragraph)

 "I had received further very definite information of horrors that
  had been committed by the Armenian soldiery in Kars Plain, and as 
  I had been able to judge of their want of discipline by their 
  treatment of my own detached parties, I had wired to Tiflis from 
  Zivin that 'in the interests of humanity the Armenians should not 
  be left in independent command of the Moslem population, as, their 
  troops being without discipline and not under effective control, 
  atrocities were constantly being committed, for which we should 
  with justice eventually be held to be morally responsible'."

p. 177 (third paragraph)

 "Armenian troops, who, having pillaged and destroyed all the
  Moslem villages in the plain...."

 "Caravans of refugees were in the meanwhile constantly arriving from the
  plain, from which the whole Moslem population was fleeing with as much of
  their personal property as they could transport, seeking to obtain security
  and protection..."

p. 178 (first paragraph)

 "In those Moslem villages in the plain below which had been searched 
  for arms by the Armenians everything had been taken under the cloak of 
  such search, and not only had many Moslems been killed, but horrible 
  tortures had been inflicted in the endeavour to obtain information as 
  to where valuables had been hidden, of which the Armenians were aware 
  of the existence, although they had been unable to find them."

p. 179 (first paragraph)

 "Shortly afterwards the head of the miserable column appeared. There 
  were in all about 200 persons, mostly old men and women and children, 
  with a few ox-carts, ponies, and donkeys, carrying all their worldly 
  possessions, except a few sheep that they were driving before them. 
  Their leader interviewed Bekir Bey, and was told to keep farther on 
  into the hills, where he would be able to cross the frontier into 
  Turkey unmolested by his enemies."

p. 181 (first paragraph)

 "the Armenians from the plain were attacking the Kurdish line with 
  artillery, with probably a large force in support."

p. 175 (first paragraph)

 "The arrival of this British brigade was followed by the announcement
  that Kars Province had been allotted by the Supreme Council of the
  Allies to the Armenians, and that announcement having been made, the
  British troops were then completely withdrawn, and Armenian occupation
  commenced. Hence all the trouble; for the Armenians at once commenced
  the wholesale robbery and persecution of the Muslem population on the
  pretext that it was necessary forcibly to deprive them of their arms.
  In the portion of the province which lies in the plains they were able
  to carry out their purpose, and the manner in which this was done will
  be referred to in due course.

Serdar Argic

                           'We closed the roads and mountain passes that 
                            might serve as ways of escape for the Turks 
                            and then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
                                                       (Ohanus Appressian)
                           'In Soviet Armenia today there no longer exists 
                            a single Turkish soul.'    (Sahak Melkonian)


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