From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe,soc.history
Followup-To: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: "Visser" gets upset everytime he hears about the Turkish Genocide. Why?
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 21:54:26 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <visser.724449830@convex.convex.com> visser@convex.com (Lance Visser) writes:

>	Nobody is sure if there is a "zuma" or not.  The way these
>things are being posted "in theory" is: 
>zuma.uucp->[the unmentionable machine].uucp->uunet->world

So there is a person who has profoundly disturbed your peace of 
mind for a long time. If you're interested, this summer's search
produced these results. Typical "wieneramus".

"Within a few months after the war began, these Armenian guerrilla
 forces, operating in close coordination with the Russians, were
 savagely attacking Turkish cities, towns and villages in the east,
 massacring their inhabitants without mercy, while at the same time
 working to sabotage the Ottoman army's war effort by destroying roads
 and bridges, raiding caravans, and doing whatever else they could to
 ease Russian occupation. The atrocities committed by the Armenian 
 volunteer forces accompanying the Russian army were so severe that the 
 Russian commanders themselves were compelled to withdraw them from the 
 fighting fronts and sent them to rear guard duties. The memoirs of many
 Russian officers who served in the east at this time are filled with 
 accounts of the revolting atrocities committed by these Armenian 
 guerrillas, which were savage even by relatively primitive standards of
 war then observed in such areas.[1]"

[1] "Journal de Guerre du Deuxieme d'Artillerie de Forteresse Russe 
     d'Erzeroum," 1919, p. 28.

Source: L. Nalbandian, "The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: The Development
        of Armenian Political Parties through the Nineteenth Century," 
        University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1963 
        (247 pages).

p. 110 (first paragraph)

"The Hunchaks said that the existing social organization in Turkish Armenia
 could be changed by violence against the Turkish government and described
 the following methods: Propaganda, Agitation, Terror, Organization, and
 Peasant and Worker Activities.
 .....
 Demonstrations against the government, refusal to pay taxes, demands for
 reforms, and hatred of the aristocracy were part of the party's agitation
 campaign. The people were also to be incited against their enemies and were
 to "profit" from the retaliatory actions of these same enemies.

 ...The part aimed at terrorizing the Ottoman government, thus contributing
 toward lowering the prestige of that regime and working toward its complete
 disintegration... The Hunchaks wanted to annihilate the most dangerous of the
 Armenian and Turkish individuals who were then working for the government,
 as well as to destroy all spies and informers...."

p. 111 (second paragraph)

"The most opportune time to institute the general rebellion for carrying
 out the immediate objective was when Turkey was engaged in a war."

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)