From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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Subject: Re: Apparently we have another "revisionist" to expose: "arromdian".
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 13:37:08 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <1992Nov22.012759.8848@leland.Stanford.EDU> arto@leland.Stanford.EDU (Artavazd Khachikian) writes:

>	Yes, he did. He also tortured to death hundreds of innocent
>netters.

Any sources for this marvelous flight of imagination? Here is mine.

Source: Documents: Volume I (1919).
        "Document No: 75," Archive No: 1-65, Cabin No: 149, Drawer No:
        4, File No: 1847, Section No: 61(89), Contents No: 7-14, 7-15. 
        (To the Third Army Command - Group Commander Brig. Gen. Sevki)

"Following the occupation by Armenians after the Russian evacuation,
 Armenians have burned and destroyed all Moslem villages and massacred
 the people. This horrible deed, was not committed only West of Border
 93 (The border at the time of 1877 - 1878 Ottoman - Russian War) but 
 also East of the border in Erivan, Gumru, Kars, Kagizman, Sarikamis
 and partly in Ardahan and Ahilek in all the villages. The massacres
 are confirmed by documentary proof and evidence.

 Part of the incidents and occurrences investigated by military troops
 in the operation regions are outlined below:

 a. On 29 April, Moslems sent to Ahilek from Gumru on 500 carts,
    were completely massacred by Armenians.

 b. Villages of Zarudsad (Arpacay) district and of Melik were burnt
    and inhabitants were massacred.

 c. Again early in April, 67 villages of Suragil district were razed
    to the ground.

 d. An Armenian force, 1000-strong, equipped with machine guns and
    two artillery guns in Kulp and vicinity, destroyed all villages
    in Kulp and Erivan region, East of Kagizman.

 e. On 1 May, a 100-strong Armenian cavalry gang murdered over 60 
    women, children and men in Sibes, Tepe, Duzkent and region. On
    25 April, 570 Moslems from Subusan village East of Kars were
    massacred by axes and knives and the corpses burnt. In Magisto
    and Alaca villages, over 100 women, children and men were 
    murdered with the same brutality. All the inhabitants of Tekneli,
    Haci Halil, Kalul, Harabe, Dagor, Milanli, Ketak, Alaca and Ilham
    villages were massacred by Armenians. 

 f. On 1 May, the inhabitants of Dangal, Acarca, Mulabi, Morcahit,
    Badigna, Havur, Koros villages burnt. Villages around Samran
    Northeast of Erivan and around Boguylu North of Kinefski over
    Arpacay were burnt and the inhabitants massacred. Many of our
    soldiers were prisoners of war at Kars and many in Gumru were
    bayonetted to death by Armenians in the presence of other Turkish
    soldiers.

 g. In short, the majority of the Moslem villages of Kars, Sarikamis,
    Erivan, Ahilkelek, and Kagizman have been destroyed by Armenians.

 h. The above are only small part of the crimes of Armenians in the
    region. But these can be viewed as examples of the overall scene."
    
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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