The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-11
JEANETTE RANKIN, THE LADY FROM MONTANA, LONG GOT v|OLETS FROM
 LEGISLATORS INSTEAD OF VOTES
ARMENIAN
 ATROCITIES
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 "In Airan-Punar four women and two girls were dragged away in the night and were offered violence, five of them came back the next morning. I met transport of about 2,500 peo- pie in Karabojuk. They were in an indescribable, miserable condition.
 One hours distance from Karabojuk two men were lying on the road one
 with two, another with seven stabs further two exhausted women, fur ther on four women, among them a
 13year-old girl with a two-day-old child, wrapped in rags, in her arms. A 60-year-old man, who had remain ed lying on the road, with a wound as long as a finger and as broad as two (caused by a stab) on his face, told me that he had left Gurun with
 13 animals
 Among this transport of 2,50O people I saw no men with the ex- ception of perhaps 30 or 40. The
 men over 15 were taken away and probably killed. These Armenians
 were purposely taken by roundabout
 ways, instead of the direct way. In- stead of being on the road four days they were en route for a month. Without animals, without beds, with out food, they were compelled to
 travel on; once a day they were given very poor bread and not enough of that. Four hundred of these people | have remained in Aleppo, of them | two or three die every day. In the vicinity of Aintab women were in- suited by civilians; men were hung | to trees and burned. When the trans 1oo Mo11 I,c climbed to the roof of the Christian l church and mockingly called the peo- l pie to prayer. One of the refugees told me that near Airan-Punar he . saw two brothers quarreling over the plunder; the one complained: T kill ed 40 women to get these four Las | ten.'
 sThe exhausted are left by the roadside, one sees dead on both sides of the road.
 sWhen some of the refugees were given food they ate it like animals, but in the case of many the inner | 'ofgans np 1onker performed their | functions, and after. one or two spoon fuls they put the food aside. The government tries to make people be- lieve that it feeds the deported, but I heard that one transport received bread but once in a month.
 "The women were compelled to bury their dead. The little children | they put in their arms, the larger ones in a bag which four women car ried, each taking an end saw dead I people who had been thrown across
 the back of a donkey. A friend of
 mine saw a dead man tied to a stick, and in this way carried by two men to the cemetery. Another saw how an oxcart of dead was taken to the
 cemetery. They came to a. path which was too narrow for the wagon: the driver simply dumped the wagon and dragged the dead to the ceme- tery by their hands and feet. They did not bury the dead for days and in one case corruption had set in to such an extent that the skin of the l dead man clung to the hands of the Hamale. Among the dead were the
 dying and the deathly i'll, lying in the
 burning sun, perhaps 1000 of them. Nearly all of the people had diar-
 rhea. Trenches were dug, along
 which the dying lay, so that when
 they died they might easily be thrown
 into the trench and buried. Some
 times they were thrown into the | SA C4ACIl OCAOAC I1lCy were GCCudlly dead. One man became conscious
 after he had been buried and the
 next morning was found sitting on his own grave.
 sI saw women looking through
 rubbish heaps for something to eat
 and children gnawing off bones of
 which there was no more meat. MT.
 l. said am not a man who is easily
 moved, but, I have not been able to
 refrain from tears since, seeing the
 sights in Rasel Ain. I did not think
 it possible that in this 2Oth Century
 such abuses could exist
 1 "A guard named Suleiman took IS women and girls and sold them for
 two and three Medjidie (S-12 Fr.) to
 Arabs. A Turk said to me: We no l longer have any way of telling how
 many women and girls have been
 taken by Arabs and Kurds with the | approval of the government or by l force. This time we carried out our
 work as it should be carried out. Of
 10 Armenians not one is living. l "As I am writing this my: wife
 comes in weeping and tells me that
 she has just seen a transport of over
 800 Armenians, barefoot and ragged,
 dragging their few possessions and
 children on their backs.
 within the last few days ITO
 corpses were seen floating in the
 Euphrates in one day, another day 50 to 60. Those that float to the
 shore are torn apart by dogs.
 l "One woman's two daughters were
 taken from her by force, then she | took her two other children and l threw them into the Euphrates. ! "In Biredjik the jails are filled
 daily; during the night they are emp | tied. Tell-Armen, a town of 5000
 inhabitants was invaded by these con- | victs, the people were massacred, and ! dead or alive, thrown into the brook
 or burned. When Turk was asked
 why all these things were being done | he answered You do not understand l our object. We want to root out the name of Armenia. Just as Germany
 wants only Germans in Germany, so l we want only Turks in Turkev"