Original sentence: Following the Hamidian massacres, the seizure of the Ottoman Bank by Armenian revolutionaries later that year, apparently a naive plea for Western intervention on behalf of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire, contributed to stoking Hamidian persecution of Armenians.The concurrent and accumulated testimony of hundreds and thousands of intelligent people, Christian and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, European and American, made it conclusively certain that a massacre of innocents, unparalleled for ages, had been perpetrated in the Armenian provinces of Turkey.Those who stormed the bank were granted safe passage out of the empire, but the Armenian population at large found itself subject to intensified violence as the sultan made no distinction between the revolutionaries who had stormed the bank and the Christian populations at large
Edited sentence: Following the Hamidian massacres, the seizure of the Ottoman Bank by Armenian terrorists later that year, apparently a naive plea for Western intervention on behalf of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire, contributed to stoking Hamidian persecution of Armenians.Those who stormed the bank were granted safe passage out of the empire, but the Armenian population at large found itself subject to intensified violence as the sultan made no distinction between the revolutionaries who had stormed the bank and the supportive and sympathetic Christian populations at large