From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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Subject: Armenian plans to exterminate the entire Muslim population of...
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 19:20:36 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <199212130446.AA25284@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:

>for life. Hell, four years ago if someone told me the Soviet Union would 
>collapse I'd roll to the floor laughing. Yet Democracy has survived in

Then you must be living in an alternate universe, "sipacik". Well, there 
is stronger evidence for that you know.


EXTRACTS FROM THE NOVEMBER ISSUE (1914) OF THE ARMENIAN PAPER "HINTCHAK", 
PUBLISHED IN PARIS, ORGAN OF THE ARMENIAN HINTCHAK COMMITTEE.

The Hintchak Social Democrat Committee representing the Armenian nation,
exposed to vexations and deprived of its rights, which has been working
since over a quarter of a century in a bloody path to obtain the liberation
of the Armenians in Turkey, now descends, driven by the power of actual
political events from the Taurus Mountains and the borders of Armenia 
down to the battle-field, blowing the trumpet of strife and revolution,
to drown in blood the Ottoman tyranny.

In this gigantic struggle where existence of nations is at stake, the
Hintchak Committee as well as the entire Armenian nation, will join their
forces, moral and material, and waving the sword of revolution in their
hands, will enter into this world war.

As comrades of arms of the Triple Entente and particularly of Russia
they will co-operate with the Allies, making full use of all political
and revolutionary means they possess, for the final victory in Armenia,
Cilicia, Caucasus and Azerbaydjan, being always led by their patriotism
and thus fulfilling their duties towards themselves and towards civilization.

Let all heroes who will sacrifice their lives for the great cause of the
Armenian freedom, come forward with all their moral and material strength
for the realization of this national aspiration.

It is only by these means that the Armenians, proud for having shed their
blood for their own cause and that of civilization, may represent the nation
at the Congress to be held on the morrow of the war.

Let it obtain its political liberty; let it show to the world that it has a
right to live, and finally let it obtain, through the consent of the 
Triple Entente, the independence granted to their fatherland for which
it has shed its blood.

And from the rays of liberty let the sun of right, justice, liberty and
fraternity rise.

Well, then, forward Comrades... Forward to work. Let us crush down the
death, death which threatens Armenia, so that it lives and it lives
for ever ...

			        	(Paris 1914)
		Head offices of the social Democrat Hintchak Committee.


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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