From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet
Followup-To: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: Re: Recalling in sorrow the silent memory of 2.5 million Muslims.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 21:48:39 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <1993Jan20.194717.81036@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> pv02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER VOROBIEFF) writes:

>Today my killfile was accidentally deleted, and, having entered 
>talk.politics.soviet, I stepped into mudlu-dung again. This posting
>contains absolutely braindead irrelevant junk thoughts that can

C'mon, you still haven't corrected yourself. Here is the review of it.

Source: "Men Are Like That" by Leonard Ramsden Hartill. The Bobbs-Merrill
Company, Indianapolis (1926). (305 pages). 
(Memoirs of an Armenian officer who participated in the genocide of 2.5 
 million Muslim people)

p. 202.

"We closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as 
 ways of escape for the Tartars and then proceeded in the work 
 of extermination. Our troops surrounded village after village. 
 Little resistance was offered. Our artillery knocked the huts 
 into heaps of stone and dust and when the villages became untenable 
 and inhabitants fled from them into fields, bullets and bayonets 
 completed the work. Some of the Tartars escaped of course. They 
 found refuge in the mountains or succeeded in crossing the border 
 into Turkey. The rest were killed. And so it is that the whole 
 length of the borderland of Russian Armenia from Nakhitchevan to 
 Akhalkalaki from the hot plains of Ararat to the cold mountain 
 plateau of the North were dotted with mute mournful ruins of 
 Tartar villages. They are quiet now, those villages, except for 
 howling of wolves and jackals that visit them to paw over the 
 scattered bones of the dead." 


"A vivid and a fascinating book."

+ Bookm 67:xxxvi My '28 300w

"He is telling the story of another, he has told it in such a 
 convincing manner that it reads more as the direct narrative
 of Ohanus Appressian than a second-handed account. The book 
 abounds with thrilling incidents."
    
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ap 7 '28 150w

  Christian Century 45:858 J1 5 '28 80w

  Cleveland Open Shelf p63 My '28

Reviewed by Lyman Bryson
	New Repub 56:26 Ag 22 '28 430w

"It is a straightforward, live, human document and shows men as they
 are - good, bad, worse or indifferent. Refreshing is the artlessness
 with which these pages disengage the fact that the Armenians, over 
 whom so many tears have been shed, are as murderously that-ish as
 Turk or Tartar; and as a picture at first hand of the efficacy of
 war and race hatred as producers of bestiality and ruin..."

 + N.Y. Evening Post p12 F 11 '28 220w

"He tells his story simply and directly..."

 + N.Y. Times p3 Ji 1 '28 430w

"It abounds with cruelty, bloodshed, and abject misery..."

 + Outlook 148:434 Mr 14 '28 250w

"...Appressian telling his own story in his words..."

 + Sat R of Lit 4:655 Mr 3 '28 300w

"The story is well told, and gives remarkable insight into the manners
 and life of an interesting people of Caucasus. It holds the scales
 evenly in its judgements, is easy reading, and mingles with sorrow
 for these people, excellent comprehension of all sides of the problem 
 that the Armenians so long have created for other nations of the world."

 + Springf'd Republican p10 Ap 11 '28 650w 

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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