I skinned his chest and belly. Seven minutes later the child died

A nation proud of a massacre is joyfully dropping a note to the history!

"When I and Khachatur entered the house, our soldiers had nailed a 13-year-old Turkish child to the window.He was making much noise so Khachatur put mother's cut breast into his mouth.

 I skinned his chest and belly. Seven minutes later the child died. As I used to be a doctor I was humanist and didn't consider myself happy for what I had done to a 13-year-old Turkish child. But my soul was proud for taking 1 percent of vengeance of my nation. 

Then Khachatur cut the body into pieces and threw it to a dog of same origin with Turks. I did the same to three Turkish children in the evening. I did my duty as an Armenian patriot.

 Khachatur had sweated much. But I saw struggle of revenge and great humanism in his and other soldiers' eyes. The next day we went to the church to clear our souls from what done previous day. 

But we were able to clear Khojali from slops of 30 thousand people.

This text is from Zori Balayan’s book “Revival of our souls” from 1996 , pages 260-262. This paragraph is the most disgusting thing I have ever read. I haven’t even heard of an Armenian response to this paragraph. A nation proud of a massacre is joyfully dropping a note to the history!


And then we see the Armenian representatives lecturing in America and Europe about humanity, human rights, genocide. And policy makers are applauding. Not even one of them dare to ask the question “What has happened in Khojali?”, “Why are you still occupying your neighbour’s land?” .Yet, poor Armenian policy makers are expressing their security concerns about Turkey.
If it is just to pressurize Turks more, then humanity is nothing but a lip service. If humanity is degraded to a lip service, and eyes are closed to what has happened in Khojali, how come we believe that Armenian lobby is true in its aims about human history, human rights and other humanized terms that they recklessly waste to gain political power. Cutting his mother’s breast, silencing the boy by stuffing the cut breast into boy’s mouth and skinning the boy alive! And yes, honourable men and women in Capitol Hill. Raise your fingers to award the worst criminals of the near history. Do not even mention Khojali. Do not think of the brutually murdered thousands!
Now you may be thinking that, the title is irrelevant to the content. After thinking about Khojali and an Armenia occupying its neighbour’s land, how sincere do you think the Armenians are? With the blood of Khojali on their hands, they are forcing politicians to accept Turkey to EU if Turkey accepts Armenian claims. No, Armenians should first accept Khojali and then they should start spelling Ottoman Armenians. There is no sincerety in any of the Armenian claims.
Now, ask yourselves another question. Who will gain most from the Armenian lobby’s pressure on Capitol Hill. United States or Putin’s Russia? May be this is just like an ordinary debate for American readers. But for Turkish people the debate is very emotional and politicising such a debate will not help. Turkish people always showed their good intentions for historians to decide on this. Very understandably(!), Armenia rejects to discuss the issue with Turk ish historians.
I believe what we will read 3 months later will be a comment of an analyst from an institute in Washington claiming how the religious groups are affecting Turkish American relations and rising anti-Americanism in Turkey, but no mentioning of the current Armenian provocation’s results on Turkish public. Then US will think that the problem in Turkish-American relations are because of a political party and eventually she will act wrongfully.
After 9/11, Americans became more paranoid. Years ago, when I first wrote about US’s failures to understand Iraq, I was accused and blamed for being Anti-American. But what I claimed has turned out to be true. Because it was obvious. And it is obvious in this case again.
The Armenian lobby’s favour to Russia is very clear. America is losing one of the most important allies in the Middle East. Not only the stability in Iraq will be risked by such an act, but also the security questions related to Georgia, Iran, Syria and Central Asia will be at stake. A Turkish public deceived by Washington will be very hard to persuade for supporting US policies. And this will be a wonderful opportunity for Russia to increase its power and cooperation with Azerbaijan and Turkey. What is the US’s interest in this?
Just answer one question, for whom the Armenians of the Khojali are lobbying for in Capitol Hill?

Karabakh Genocide by armenia

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The KhojalyGenocide: A Shameful Spot in the History of Mankind

The Khojaly Genocide: 

A Shameful Spot in the History of Mankind

The Khojali Genocide, with its brutality and inhumanity was the result of the Armenian policy of creating a “Great Armenia” from sea to sea.

 Following this policy, throughout history Armenian chauvinists have committed several bloody crimes, acts of terror, and genocidal actions against the Azerbaijani people.

 With the decline of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, they got an opportunity to implement their historical dream. Moreover, beginning in 1988 Armenians intending to create a mono-ethnic state forced Azerbaijanis living in Armenia to flee their historical territories. Also violating the international norms of territorial integrity, the Armenian government aimed to annex Nagorno Karabakh, a historically Azerbaijani region, with Russian military, socio-economic and political support.

These events led to the killing of thousands of innocent Azerbaijanis, as well as the removal of hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis from their historical homelands. Hundreds of settlements, thousands of public-cultural buildings, educational and medical establishments, historical-cultural monuments, mosques, saint worships, and cemeteries were destroyed and became the subjects of unprecedented Armenian vandalism. Thousands of our fellow-citizens died or were injured during the Armenian occupation, with their armed forces occupying 20 percent of our territory. One of the most repulsive crimes against the Azerbaijani people was the brutal annihilation of hundreds of innocent inhabitants of the town of Khojali by Armenian fascists on the night of 25/26 February 1992.

On that night the Armenian armed forces, under the command of Major Oganyan Seyran Mushegovich and Yevgeniy Nabokhin, with the help of the 366^th motorized infantry brigade of the Russian Interior Ministry, stationed in the capital city of Nagorno Karabakh, Khankandi, occupied the small town of Khojali. Following the occupation of Khojali, 613 innocent Azerbaijanis, including 106 women and 83 children, were massacred by Armenian and Russian forces. Twenty-five children were orphaned and 130 lost one parent. Eight families were totally exterminated. Four-hundred and seventy-six people were permanently disabled. A total of 1275 people were taken hostage, and even though afterwards most of the hostages were released, the fates of 150 of them are still unknown. The event sparked the exodus of Azerbaijanis from their historic lands. [1] 

The Khojali massacre, which has entered our history as the Khojali Genocide, with its brutality was totally ethnic cleansing against the innocent people of Azerbaijan. This bloody tragedy represents terrorist and barbaric behavior in the history of mankind and crimes against humanity. The results of the massacre were difficult to tabulate; Armenians perpetrated an unheard-of punitive crime against the population of the town of Khojali. According to the results of medical examinations, 56 of the victims were killed with unusual cruelty. They scalped, cut off people's heads and other organs, extracted the eyes of children, and chopped the stomachs of pregnant women. Some people were burned alive. [2]

A Russian human rights group reported that "scores of the corpses bore traces of profanation. Doctors on a hospital train in Aghdam noted that no fewer than four corpses had been scalped and one had been beheaded.... and one case of live scalping." Human Rights Watch called the tragedy at the time "the largest massacre to date in the conflict." The New York Times wrote about "truckloads of bodies" and described acts of "scalping." Pascal Privet and Steve Le Vine of “Newsweek” in the article “The face of massacre” reported: “Azerbaijan was charnel house again last week: a place of mourning refuges and dozens of mangled corpses dragged to a makeshift morgue behind the mosque. They were ordinary Azerbaijani men, women and children of Khojali, a small village in war–torn Nagorno-Karabakh overrun by Armenian forces on 25-26 February. Many were killed at close range while trying to flee; some had their faces mutilated, others were scalped” [3]

On 3 March 1992 the New York Times reported: “fresh evidence emerged today of a massacre of civilians by Armenian militants in Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani officials and journalists who flew briefly to the region by helicopter brought back three dead children with the backs of their heads blown off. They said shooting by Armenians had prevented them from retrieving more bodies. Dozens of bodies scattered over the area lent credence to Azerbaijani reports of a massacre. New York Times also motioned that, “Near Agdam on the outskirts of Nagorno-Karabakh, a Reuter’s photographer, Frederique Lengaigne, said she had seen two trucks filled with Azerbaijani bodies. "In the first one I counted 35, and it looked as though there were almost as many in the second," she said. "Some had their heads cut off, and many had been burned". [4]

Another freelance journalist Clare Doyle reported: “Advancing Karabakh Armenian troops were able to overwhelm Azerbaijani forces defending Khojali. In a chaotic retreat, Azerbaijani troops found themselves intermingled with hundreds of civilian refugees as they all fled to the nearby town of Agdam. Armenian forces fired on this group as they crossed open ground. Estimates vary widely, but it is clear that at least 200 and possibly more than 600 people were killed, among them many women and children”. [5]

In his book “Revival of our souls”, the Armenian author Zori Balayan justified the Khojali Genocide and proudly confessed Armenians’ Genocide against Azerbaijanis in Khojali in 1992 February. He said in his book that, “When I and Khachtur entered the house, our soldiers had nailed a 13-year-old Turkish child to the window. He was making much noise so Khachatur put mother’s cut breast into his mouth. Then I did what their fathers had done to our children. I skinned his chest and belly. Seven minutes later the child died. As I used to be a doctor I was humanist and didn’t consider myself happy for what I had done to a 13-year-old Turkish child. But my soul was proud for taking 1 percent of vengeance of my nation. Then Khachatur cut the body into pieces and threw it to a dog of same origin with Turks. I did the same to three Turkish children in the evening. I did my duty as an Armenian patriot. Khachatur had sweated much. But I saw struggle of revenge and great humanism in his and other soldiers’ eyes. The next day we went to the church to clear our souls from what done previous day. But we were able to clear Khojali from slops of 30 thousand people”. [6]

Another Armenian author David Davidian, while condemning Azerbaijani soldiers with Khojali events, wrote that, “On 26 February 1992 Armenian forces succeed in capturing the second largest Azerbaijani-populated center in Nagorno Karabakh, Khojali, in the Askeran region, which had also doubled as a potent launching point for GRAD missile attacks upon surrounding Armenian regions. Close to 300 Azerbaijanis and Meshketian settlers brought to buttress the Azerbaijani presence are killed while fleeing with Azerbaijani soldiers in retreat. Just after the Armenians and the CIS's 366th Motor Rifle Regiment captured and neutralized shelling position in Khojali, during a civilian evacuation process fighting erupted between Armenian and CIS soldiers guarding this evacuation and Azerbaijani soldiers mixed in with these evacuating civilians. The result was the deaths of hundreds of evacuating Azerbaijani civilians and soldiers.” [7] This information proves the direct Russian support of Armenia in the Nagorno Karabakh war and the involvement of Russian military base 366’s motorized infantry brigades for the fulfillment of the Khojali Genocide.

On February 17^th 2002, Dan Barton, a member of the US Congress, described the Khojali Genocide in his speech in the House of Representative as following: - "this savage cruelty against innocent woman, children and elderly is unfathomable in and of itself but the senseless brutality did not stop with Khojali. It was simply the first. In fact, the level of brutality and the unprecedented atrocities committed in Khojali set a pattern of destruction and ethnic cleansing those Armenian troops would adhere to for the remainder of the war".[8] All these facts prove that Armenia committed genocide against civilians, violating Geneva Convention protocol concerning war rules. During the Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan all acts defining the crime of genocide under this Convention were committed.

According to international law, genocide is defined as an act committed against peace and humanity and considered to be the gravest international crime. The UN General Assembly Resolution 96 (I) of 11 December 1946 reads that genocide, through rejecting the groups’ right to life, degrades human dignity, deprives the mankind of the material and spiritual values created by human beings. Such odious acts are completely contrary to the spirit and aims of the United Nations. The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by Resolution 260(III) of the UN General Assembly of 9 December 1948 and which entered into force in 1951, provides a legal framework for the crime of genocide. The states that signed this Convention confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under the international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.

The fact that the violence during the Khojali Genocide was well organized and planned in advance and aimed at total or partial destruction of people on the grounds of their ethnic origin confirms that these acts constitute the crime of genocide under international law. This act of vandalism and brutality committed by Armenian aggressors should be considered not only as 31th March Genocide of Azerbaijan or Black January, but on the same level as the Jewish Genocide by Nazi Germany during the Second World War and the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.  The author of this historical crime targeted not only Azerbaijanis, but also the whole civilized world and mankind. It was the birth of a new form of fascism and has to be punished by the international community. But unfortunately, the Khojali genocide, though characterized by gross violations of human rights, has not yet received legal recognition at the international level. No concrete measures have been taken against the terrorist and aggressive acts. The international community must acknowledge the Khojali Genocide.It is time to make decisions compliant with the universal values and international legal norms.

Each year on February 26 Azerbaijan commemorates the inhuman action, which is known as the Khojali Genocide committed by joint Armenian and Russian armies.  Former President of the Azerbaijan Republic Haydar Aliyev issued a special decree regarding the Khojali genocide on March 1, 1994. According to an appropriate decree of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the 26th day of February was declared as a day of national mourning in memory of the innocent Azerbaijanis who were killed in inhuman ways during the Khojali massacre.

1. Elkhan Nuriyev, “Khojali Genocide Forever Remember”, Today’s Zaman. 27.02.2008

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=134943

2. Elman Mammadov,  Autumn 1999 (7.3), “Massacre and Flight From Khojali”, Journal of Azerbaijan International, USA, Autumn1999 (7.3), p54-56http://azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/73_folder/73_articles/73_khojali.html

3. This information was taken from the Press Release of the Special Mission of Azerbaijan Republic to the United Nation, “Khojali Genocide-16^th Anniversary”, 26.02.2008http://www.un.int/azerbaijan/62%20Session/Press%20Release%202008/Khodjali.pdf

4. New York Times, “Massacre by Armenians Being Reported”, 03.03.1992  http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE0DE1739F930A35750C0A964958260&scp=1&sq=khojaly%20genocide&st=cse

5. Clare Doyle, “Genocide Debate Complicates Search for Karabakh Peace”, 06.03.2002http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav030602a.shtml

6. Zori Balayan, “Revival of our souls”, 1996, p 260-262. This text was taken from the website of “Armenian Genocide Research Center” referring to book given above.                                                                http://armenians-1915.blogspot.com/2007/02/1402-media-scanner-6-feb-2007.html

7. David Davidian, “Armenian Capture of Khojali, February 1992”,http://www.hairenik.com/armenianweekly/june_july/history002.html

8. Dan Burton, “Remembering Khojali, Finally Documented in U.S. Congressional Record”, Journal of Azerbaijan International, USA, Spring 2005 (13.1), p 16-17.http://azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/ai131_folder/131_articles/131_khojali_congress.html

9. Interview with the Dr. Rovshan Ibrahimov, Head of International Relation Department at the Qafqaz University. 22.02.2009

10. Interview with the Former State Advise on the Foreign Affairs of the President of Azerbaijan Republic Professor Vafa Quluzadeh. 02.26.2009  

Zori Balayan confesses Armenians' genocide against Turks in Khojali

There are a lot of facts confirming involvement of Zori Balayan, one of ideologists of "Great Armenia", in Khojali.

Zori Balayan who is searched by Interpol justified the Khojali genocide in his book "Revival of our souls" and proudly confessed Armenians' genocide against Azerbaijanis in Khojali region in February in 1992, APA reports. "When I and Khachtur entered the house, our soldiers had nailed a 13-year-old Turkish child to the window. He was making much noise so Khachatur put mother's cut breast into his mouth. Then I did what their fathers had done to our children.  I skinned his chest and belly. Seven minutes later the child died. As I used to be a doctor I was humanist and didn't consider myself happy for what I had done to a 13-year-old Turkish child. But my soul was proud for taking 1 percent of vengeance of my nation. Then Khachatur cut the body into pieces and threw it to a dog of same origin with Turks.  I did the same to three Turkish children in the evening. I did my duty as an Armenian patriot. Khachatur had sweated much. But I saw struggle of revenge and great humanism in his and other soldiers' eyes. The next day we went to the church to clear our souls from what done previous day.  But we were able to clear Khojali from slops of 30 thousand people," the book reads. Zori Balayan said that every Armenian should be proud of this action.  The above mentioned crimes of Armenians against the humanity are at pages 260-262 of the book "Revival of our souls" published in 1996.

URL: http://www.today.az/news/politics/36133.html

GENOCIDE, GENOCIDE, GENOCIDE

GENOCIDE, GENOCIDE, GENOCIDE

Hatem CABBARLI

Zori Balayan, who is known by his chauvinist point of view and ambassador of Great Armenia ideology, blamed Turks with incredible things in his book “Ocag”. He stated that Turks made genocide against Armenians and Armenians would never forget that, also, called all Armenians for revenge. 

Balayan, also, mentions about a sort of Armenian sickness: Sickness that is seen in victims of genocide… the psychological status of downtrodden and mistreated Armenians. This is an infectious disease and only valid for Armenians. 

In the Soviet Union era sickness completed its hidden period and after independency it spread out rapidly among Armenians. Armenians say that the treatment of this sickness can only be possible after the revenge of events on 1915, having Kars, Iğdır, Erzurum, Sivas and Trabzon within Armenia territories and Armenian flag on top of Mountain Ararat, also, it is necessary to do everything to make this treatment. 

To achieve this aim they wrote a prescription in which they stated, “gaining international recognition of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated” in the 11th term of Declaration of Independence. Although Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the first President of Armenia (1991-1998), didn’t apply this prescription that much, however, Robert Kocharian personally interested in this subject as soon as he was in power and has been making effort both in domestic and foreign policy for treatment of this “Armenian sickness”.

By the support of Armenian government National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and World Armenian Organization making effort on preparing “Evidence File” regarding so-called Armenian genocide for gaining international recognition. For this purpose World Armenian Organization summon a conference at the hall of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia on the date of May 6 – 7, 2004 named “Factor of Genocide in the issue of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations”.

There are no political party, non-governmental organization or academician in Armenia that has courage to deny “genocide”.

 Otherwise, it is impossible for him to be active within territories of Armenia. The leader of the National Democratic Union of Armenia, Vazgen Manukyan, commented on the relations between Turkey and Armenia to İA REGNUM News Agency. Manukyan blamed Turkey with “genocide”, demanded about opening the borders, also, highlighted the importance of propaganda activities regarding international recognition of Armenian genocide. 

Andranic Migranyan, a well-known Armenian historian, shares the same point of view with him. In the press conference on May 8, 2004 he notified that he didn’t approve the statements of President Robert Kocharian regarding so-called Armenian genocide, which was “For us the recognition of the genocide is important. 

The demands of land and indemnity are claims of Diaspora not Armenian state.” He particularly emphasized on not to withdraw the claim of recognition of “genocide” by Turkey and the propaganda of “genocide” by Armenian government even if diplomatic relations were established between two states, the border gates were opened and the economic relations improved.

In a period that Armenian government speeds up the work about recognition of so-called genocide, some political and economic circles in Turkey supports the opening of border gates and stressing that such a case would be a pretext for the normalization of relations between two countries. These circles do not take the opponent policy of Armenia towards Turkey into consideration and forget disclaim of Armenia regarding Turkish territorial integrity, demands about recognition of so-called genocide by Turkey, also, land and indemnity demands

the Armenians come as close to being a single-willed monolith as a people can muster.

Is that IT?

Well, don't blame me! Keep in mind the Armenians come as close to being a single-willed monolith as a people can muster. There are few instances where they have let their guard down and personally admitted to their brutalities. (Since their entire M.O. has been to commit the crimes, and then cry to the West that they have been victimized, after the counter-measures finally follow.) Many of these original sources that go against the Armenians' entire raison d'etre (that is, "genocide.com")... such as The 1923 Manifesto of Hovhannes Katchaznouni, Armenia's First Prime Minister...have been picked off the shelves of libraries and bookstores by the Diaspora faithful, in an effort to erase the critical evidence by their own against them. So why don't I do what Armenian web sites do when they provide "evidence" prepared by Armenians... and similarly provide reports written by Turks? I've largely avoided doing so, because I realize the impartial observer will question the credibility of the accused. (Not to mention the many brainwashed partial observers, but these sad souls are usually beyond redemption.) I invite you to scour this web site... you will find plenty of testimony by Westerners who DON'T have reason to love the Turks and who HAVE provided testimony to the atrocities performed by the Armenians. Don't forget this following report written by an Orthodox brother, Russian officer Lt. Col. Twerdokhleboff... who kept a diary between 1917 and 1918, on the inhuman actions of the Armenians. Below, you'll find eyewitness reports of two other Russians I've taken from the same page. (And when I say "eyewitness," they were most certainly "eyewitnesses"... unlike the bulk of missionaries and American consuls who are often falsely termed as "eyewitnesses.") This photo is said to be of the Armenian committee member (Mardo?), along with "Tigris" from Diabekir, proudly posing in front of the Turkish villager they killed. (From the documentary, "Sari Gelin.") Fortunately ("Fortunately"?? What am I saying?), the bloodthirstiness and massacring of the innocent that is common to Armenians was displayed in recent history, when the Armenians pulled a sneak, cowardly attack on neighbor Azerbaijan during the early 1990s. Here is only a portion ofWestern media reports on the atrocious way in which Armenian soldiers handled themselves. Not to mention their actions duringWorld War II, when their job mostly became (having proven themselves as poor soldiers at the front) that of doing what they do best: persecuting the innocent, primarily (in this case) the Jews. Granted, such criminality does not prove Armenians acted similarly during the First World War... but they lend significant further evidence as to what might have happened, because the essential nature of a people does not change. Contrast the Armenians with the impeccable way Turkish soldiers behaved since the World War I era. (In Korea, for example, admiring Chinese prisoners would say... in the only English they had learned... "Turkish soldiers Number One!"

Holdwater: Keep in mind these Russians were most likely not Turk-lovers and had no other agenda, like missionaries and "Christian" American consuls; they were simply telling the truth. "More than 800 unarmed, defenseless Turks were murdered. The Armenians had dug gigantic trenches into which the poor Turks were thrown after being slaughtered, like a herd of cattle. An Armenian who directed the execution counted the unhappy victims.  'That's seventy,' he roared, 'there (is) still room for ten more; hack away! ' And another ten wretches were slaughtered to fill up the gap, which was then filled in with a little earth. The army contractor wanted to provide a little diversion for his own benefit. He locked into a house eighty wretched victims, and then had them let out one after another while he smashed in their skulls with his own hand." Commander-in-Chief, Odichelidze, who also reported that in the village of Ilidja all Turks who were unable to escape were massacred; he saw numbers of corpses of children whose heads had been hacked off with blunt axes. This same officer, identified as "Russian General L. Odishe Liyetze" is reported to have written in his diary: "On the nights 11-12 March alone Armenian butchers bayoneted and axed to death Muslim people in areas surrounding Erzincan. These barbarians threw their victims into pits, most likely dug according to their sinister plans to extinguish Muslims, in groups of 80. My adjutant counted and unearthed 200 such pits. This is an act against our world of civilization." ...Lieutenant-Colonel Griaznoff (spelled "Griyaznof," elsewhere), who returned from Ilidja on the 28th February, 1918, three weeks after the slaughter, related what he had seen: " In the courtyard of the mosque the corpses lay heaped to a depth of two lance-lengths. There were bodies of men, women, children, old people, people of every age.""On the (of) 27th February, the Armenians crucified a Turkish woman-still alive — on a wall after tearing out her heart; she was hung head downwards." (The source for these are unknown, but I came across them in two separate areas, translated by two separate parties, with the name spellings differing... but the messages were exactly the same, even if the words did not exactly match. It's possible the top quote ["More than 800..."] is from Griaznoff/Griyaznof, and not the general.) A presumed Russian source: "The killings were organized by the doctors and the employers, and the act of killing was committed solely by the Armenian Army. More than eighty thousand unarmed and defenceless Muslims have been massacred in Erzincan and Erzurum. Large holes were dug and the defenceless Muslims were slaughtered like animals next to the holes. Later, the murdered Muslims were thrown into the holes. The Armenian who stood near the hole would say when the hole was filled with the corpses: 'Seventy dead bodies, well, this hole can take ten more.' Thus ten more Muslims would be cut into pieces, thrown into the hole, and when the hole was full it would be covered over with soil. The Armenians responsible for the act of murdering would frequently fill a house with eighty Muslims, and cut their heads off one by one. Following the Erzincan massacre, the Armenians began to withdraw towards Erzurum... The Armenian Army among those who withdrew to Erzurum from Erzincan raided the Moslem villages on the road, and destroyed the entire population, together with the villages." Dr. Azmi Suslu, Russian View on the Genocide Committed by the Armenians Against the Muslims, 1987, pp. 45-53.

"The reports received by the First Caucasian Army Commander reveals that some Armenian rebels active in the region have gone to cities and settlements and established themselves at households there. They refuse to abide by the orders of the castle commander. The undisciplined and immoral doings of these teams have reached such an extent that they are subjecting the civilians to violence." Colonel Yakovlev, Jan. 29, 1915, in a National Communist Party Central Committee report, Classified/Archive/348;note the pre-"April 24" date. Prof. Kallerya Bellova Following the takeover of Van, local Turks were killed... Russian commanders witnessed incidents of rape, robbery and murder there. Documents pertaining to these are available at the History of War Museum. Prof. Kallerya Bellova,Moscow State University TELEGRAPH OF RUSSIAN GENERAL NIKOLAYEF TO CAUCASIAN ARMY COMMANDER "When the Armenian volunteers taking the stolen spoils, the Russian soldiers trying to hinder them was shot by the Armenians. Moreover, the volunteers are plundering continuously and find pleasure in any kind of committing murder. In order (to) end these murders, a Council of War was established in Van. In addition, to prevent these crimes, it was deemed necessary to form the unities of discipline." General NIKOLAYEF Thanks: Turkses.com