From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe,soc.history
Subject: One of them is surely a crook: "porno.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk" or "morning".
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 15:51:29 GMT


In article <Bu1zFF.IMo@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning) writes:

>>Out of the "sternlights" of "porno.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk crooks" may come 
>>gems of "hallamians", but also "garbage".

>No! no! no!....look, you're doing this all *wrong*:

"dcs.glasgow" crooks. Amazing creatures. Been around maybe five years,
so they can cope with about any criminal act. Lots of them, too. Anyway, 
according to the historians and historical documents, the Armenian 
genocide of the Muslims had actually commenced before the first battles of 
the war. In August, 1914, the Armenians of Zeytun rebelled against military
conscription. All over Eastern Anatolia Armenian guerilla bands 
organized and came out of hiding. Weapons, provided by Russian 
government and the Armenian revolutionary groups, were brought from 
hiding. (In one government investigation, Ottoman officials complained 
that the Armenian guerillas possessed better weapons than did the 
Ottoman soldiers sent to fight them. Armenian rebels in the city of Urfa
were armed with machine guns, in short supply in most regular armies at 
the beginning of the war.) Supplies, including weapons, ammunition, and 
even uniforms, had been successfully hidden in anticipation of just such
a conflict. The Russians, anticipating a war, had cooperated with the 
revolutionaries, rightly assuming that Armenian rebellion in wartime 
could only assist Russian conquest.

Armenian revolutionaries resolved to take advantage of the best chance
they had ever seen for successful rebellion. The war had claimed all
the soldiers who would ordinarily be stationed in the Eastern provinces.
Even the 'gendarmes' (paramilitary rural police force) had been sent to
the front. Those Muslims who remained behind were females and very old 
and very young males. The Muslim villages of Eastern Anatolia were in 
essence defenseless.

In theory, young Armenian males should have been conscripted into the 
army along with Muslims, but tens of thousands escaped to join guerilla 
bands or fled to Russia, ultimately to join the Russian army or its 
Armenian auxiliaries. 

Soon after the war began, Armenian bands were raiding all over Eastern
Anatolia. Some sprang up locally and immediately began their attacks.
Others were made up of Armenians who had crossed the Russian border
for training and returned, organized into guerrilla bands. Guerrillas
from Anatolia were joined by Armenians from the Russian Empire, largely 
recruited by the Dashnak Party and armed by the Russian government. The
bands were a major military threat, not a minor irritant. The Ottomans
estimated 30,000 armed Armenian guerrillas in Sivas province alone.
Approximately 8,000 Armenians from Mush, Van, and Bitlis were trained
by the Russians in the town of Kaghizman alone, another 6,000 were trained
in Ighdir. No one accurately counted the numbers, but unquestionably there
were more than 100,000 Armenian guerrillas or other fighters from Anatolia
or the Russian territories fighting in Anatolia.

At first the Armenian rebels operated in classic guerrilla fashion,     
destroying communications, hampering military and governmental activities,
and spreading terror. Recruiting units for the Ottoman Army came 
under particular attacks, as did mail deliveries and telegraph lines.
Gendarmerie posts, their usual squads spread thin by the war, were 
attacked. The first Muslim villages were raided. In short, the Armenian
guerrillas had begun to act as advance units of the Russian Army,
"softening up" the territory of intended Russian invasion. The Armenian
activities soon expanded.

In a very short time the Armenian guerrillas, aided by Armenian villagers
and deserters from the Ottoman Army, went to an advanced stage of 
rebellion. They set about to seize the cities of the Ottoman East.
In most cases they were unsuccessful, and the cities (such as 
Kara Hissar) or defensive redoubts (such as the famous Musa Dagh) which
they seized were only briefly held against Ottoman counter-attack. In
military terms, however, the rebel attacks were a success. The Ottomans
were forced to withdraw whole divisions from the Russian Front to meet 
the internal threat from the Armenians. The result was Russian invasion
and the extermination of 2.5 million Muslims by the Armenian Government.


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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