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Subject: Re: Armenian scholars on the genocide of 2.5 million Muslim people.
Date: 17 Dec 92 06:49:59 GMT
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In article <9212072048@zuma.UUCP> sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic) writes:
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>From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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>Subject: Armenian scholars on the genocide of 2.5 million Muslim people.
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>Date: Mon, 07 Dec 92 20:48:43 EST
>Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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>In article <8107@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>
>>But mutlu/ardic is not much of a problem (except for disk space*).  Nobody
>>will read what he writes.  He is a much faster writer than we are readers.
>>Moreover, he does not want to discuss.  He prefers unreliable news over
>>reliable e-mail, so that when he responds to this I have a 60% chance of
>
>This is utter assertion, without even a hint of factual data to confirm it.
>Any sources for this marvelous flight of imagination? Well, how about an 
>Armenian scholar?
>
>There were many Russian Armenians among the leaders and members of
>the Hunchak Revolutionary Party.[1] The Hunchak Revolutionary Party
>declared that its goal was to "free the Turkish Armenia" and Part IV
>of its political program makes clear the methods to be used for this
>purpose:
>
>The only way of achieving our immediate goal is to start a revolution,
>that is, using force to upset all order in the Turkish Armenia, forcing
>the people to start a war against the Turkish Government with a general
>revolution.
>
>The means of these activities are:
>
>1. Propaganda: using the press, publications and oral means to spread the
>   revolutionary ideas of Hunchak in the millet, and especially among the
>   workers, establishing a revolutionary organization among them, and
>   organizing revolutionary regiments.
>
>2. Terror: using terror as punishment against Turkish administrators, secret
>   agents, informers, and traitors. Terror must be a means and a weapon for
>   protecting the revolutionary organization.
>
>3. Raider regiments organization: military units kept ready to fight against...
>   government forces. These regiments can serve as vanguard regiments during 
>   general revolutions.
>
>4. General revolutionary organization: comprises several regular groups all of
>   which are attached to each other to form a unity and a harmonious whole,
>   all of which use the same tactics to advance in the same general and 
>   common direction, and all of which are administered and directed by a
>   central committee.
>
>5. Revolutionary regiments organization.
>
>6. The declaration of a war by any state against Turkey should be considered
>   as the most opportune time for the general revolution, for the immediate 
>   goal. 
>
>[1] L. Nalbandian, "The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: The Development
>    of Armenian Political Parties through the Nineteenth Century," 
>    (Los Angeles, 1963), pp. 105-118.
>
>Source: Documents: Volume I (1919).
>        "Document No: 88," Archive No: 1/2, Cabin No: 113, Drawer 
>        No: 3, File No: 527, Section No: 732(2057), Contents No: 26-7.
>        (To the Ottoman Army Acting Supreme Command - 9th Army Commander
>        Sevki)
>
>"For 4-5 months, Armenians in Erivan, Karabag and Nahcivan have been 
> committing all kinds of cruelties on the Moslem population. Particularly
> in Erivan and Karabag, the Armenians have annihilated the Moslem 
> population by massacres, plunders and by forcing them to leave. Up-to-date,
> thousands of Moslem families, have been forced to flee for their lives
> in starvation to the Kars region. Those who could not flee or migrate
> were annihilated. Files, documents and reports on this matter have been
> from time to time submitted to the Supreme Command.
>
> The Gang Leader named Antranik, who has directed the Armenian policy
> of cruelty and brutality, has so far shed the blood of hundreds of
> thousands of people. Also destroyed all the houses, still continuing
> the same destruction in Karabag."
>          
>
>        "Document No: 83," Archive No: 1/2, Cabin No: 113, Drawer 
>        No: 3, File No: 527, Section No: 718(2056), Contents No: 10.
>        (To the Ottoman Army Acting Supreme Command - Eastern Armies
>        Group Commander Halil)
>
>"In a cable I received from the Caucasian Islamic Army Command it is
> stated that in recent days Armenians have murdered over 100 Moslems
> in Karabag and blocked the way for 300,000 Moslems in the region,
> murdering women and children of Moslems who want to return thus
> necessitating a joint operation from Azerbaidjan to the Southwest
> and from Nahcivan Region to the Northeast for the protection of the
> Moslem population.
>
> As the problem of the Armenia - Azerbaidjan boundary is not yet solved,
> it is certain that Armenians will annihilate the total Moslem 
> population of Karabag in order to claim the extension of their 
> boundaries."
>
>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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