ADDENDUM, 10-07
LATTER-DAY ARMENIAN MASSACRE M.O.; COMPARE WITH ABOVE
"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 1percent 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."
Zori Balayan, “Revival of Our Souls,” 1996 , pages 260-262; as excerpted by Baris Sanli, "Russian Finger Inside Capitol Hill : Armenian Lobby?" (Ocrober 17, 2007.) His outraged comment:"A nation proud of a massacre is joyfully dropping a note to the history!"
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Ambassador Mark Bristol, recorded in his War Diary, August 14, 1922 (U.S. 867.000/1540):
"I know from reports of my own officers who served with General Dro that defenseless villages were bombarded and then occupied, and any inhabitants that had not run away were brutally killed, the village pillaged, and all the livestock confiscated, and then the village burned. This was carried out as a regular systematic getting-rid-of the Muslims."
"Mysterious" Obliteration
Source: Hovannisian, Richard G.: 'Armenia on the Road
to Independence,' 1918. University of California Press
(Berkeley and Los Angeles), 1967, p. 13.
"The addition of the Kars and Batum oblasts to the
Empire increased the area of Transcaucasia to over
130,000 square miles. The estimated population of the
entire region in 1886 was 4,700,000, of whom 940,000
(20 percent) were Armenian, 1,200,000 (25 percent)
Georgian, and 2,220,000 (45 percent) Moslem. Of the
latter group, 1,140,000 were Tatars. Paradoxically,
barely one-third of Transcaucasia's Armenians lived in
the Erevan guberniia, where the Christians constituted
a majority in only three of the seven uezds."In 1920, '0' percent Muslim.
(Han Mutlu)Holdwater: Reader Conan pointed out the Muslim percentage above works out to 47%, not 45%. The 1926 Great Soviet Encyclopedia, the Soviets' Encyclopedia Britannica, provided the 1918 Azeri population of Erivan at 38%. This figure would not exactly go down to "Zero" percent in a couple of years, but would come awfully close... in what a writer from a 1990 issue ofThe Jewish Times would call "an appropriate analogy to the Holocaust." Here is how Dr. Gerard Libaridian dealt with the issue, in 1982."In Soviet Armenia today there no longer exists a single Turkish soul."Sahak Melkonian, Preserving the Armenian Purity, 1920
Basar, H. K. (ed.); 'Muslim and Russian Documents on
the Genocide Committed by the Armenians Against the
Muslims,' 1981.
p. 22.
"The atrocities and massacres which have been
committed for a long time against the Muslim
population within the Armenian Republic have been
confirmed with very accurate information, and the
observations made by Rawlinson, the British
representative in Erzurum, have confirmed that these
atrocities were being committed by the Armenians. The
United States delegation of General Harbord has seen
the thousands of refugees who came to take refuge with
Kazim Karabekir's soldiers, hungry and miserable,
their children and wives, their properties destroyed,
and the delegation was a witness to the cruelties.
Many Muslim villages have been destroyed by the
soldiers of Armenian troops armed with cannons and
machine guns before the eyes of Karabekir's troops and
the people. When it was hoped that this operation
would end, unfortunately since the beginning of
February the cruelties inflicted on the Muslim
population of the region of Shuraghel, Akpazar,
Zarshad, and Childir have increased. According to
documented information, 28 Muslim villages have been
destroyed in the aforementioned region, more than
60,000 people have been slaughtered, many possessions
and livestock have been seized, young Muslim women
have been taken to Kars and Gumru, thousands of women
and children who were able to flee their villages were
beaten, raped and massacred in the mountains, and this
aggression against the properties, lives, chastity and
honour of the Muslims continued. It was the
responsibility of the Armenian Government that the
cruelties and massacres be stopped in order to
alleviate the tensions of Muslim public opinion due to
the atrocities committed by the Armenians, that the
possessions taken from the Muslims be returned and
that indemnities be paid, that the properties, lives,
and honour of the Muslims be protected."
Further light on this period of the conflict can be found in theBristol Papers.A case study of Armenian inhumanity: The Destruction of Ottoman Erzurum by Armenians
Richard Hovannisian on Armenian Atrocities(From Hovannisian's The Republic of Armenia, Volume III, as related by Sam Weems' "Armenia: Secrets of a 'Christian' Terrorist State," pp. 190-192)In 1918, during World War I, perhaps as many as 350,000 Muslims in Armenia became destitute refugees, a third of whom also became “homeless living in misery along the Ottoman frontier.” (P178)The Azerbaijani foreign ministry and press frequently protested the maltreatment of the Turkic population under Armenian domination. Aside from doing nothing to prevent atrocities committed by Western Armenian irregulars, the Erevan government was charged with disregarding the Mus lim destitute, who were denied shelter medical attention, and employment. Of the nearly 15,000 needy in and around the capital city, fewer than 2,500 received even a daily bowl of soup. Furthermore, Armenian welfare agencies knew full well that the disease-ridden Turkish Armenians settled in barracks in the Muslim quarter of Erevan would infect and thus decimate the native inhabitants. (P178)And the Armenians made up the story that the Ottomans committed genocide:On August 1, Khan Tekinskii, the Azerbaijani envoy in Erevan, claimed that 300 Muslim villages had been de stroyed since the beginning of 1918, that the only nondiscrimination shown by Armenians was in their slaugh ter of men, women, and children alike, that Muslim suffering was so intense that thousands were trying to move to Azerbaijan, and that those who had taken arms against the Armenian bandits were simply exercising their right to de fend lives, property, and homes. In Paris, too, the Azerbaijani delegation launched a propaganda campaign to change the image of the Armenians as a helpless, victimized people and to point out what could be expected in areas placed under their domination. On August 20 Topchibasheer warned the peace conference that the ethnic and territorial character of the Caucasus was being radically altered through a policy of terror and violence. Armenian aggression in the provinces of Erevan and Kars. . . was aimed at eliminating the Muslim population and suppressing the principle of self-determina tion. It had just been learned, for example, that the men of six villages had been massacred and their womenfolk dis tributed to the ‘Armenian Warriors.’ Azerbaijan could no longer tolerate such atrocities acquiesce in the loss of a part of its land and people.(P180)And the Armenians today speak of genocide. There was one and they committed it. Is it any wonder American officers at the time spoke of how terrible the Armenian troops were?Consider these facts, as recorded by Armenian Hovannisian:When Muslim villagers attempted to defend their lands by attempting to seize the roads and bridges spanning the Araxes River, Armenian militiamen and irregulars exacted retribution from the most vulnerable Muslim settlements and sacked the large villages of Djanfida and Kiarim-Arkb. News of this operation elicited bitter recriminations from the small Social Revolutionary and Muslim factions in the Armenian Parliament. On August 24 Arsham Khondkarian used the tactic of parliamentary questions to ask if the interior ministry knew that a number of Tatar villages had been pillaged and depopulated, that Armenian civilians had participated in the action, and that such outrages created a most detrimental atmosphere. He received no satisfactory reply.Khondkarian's pointed questioning was frequently cited in Azerbaijani sources as proof of Armenian culpability. Incorporating this evidence in a formal protest on September 22, Foreign Minister Jafarov charged that the recent pogroms had devastated some fifty Muslim settlements. Public opinion in Azerbaijan was incensed, and the government, revolted by the atrocities, demanded strong measures to ensure the safety of Muslims. [P181]There you have it: an Armenian scholar calling his country's actions against Muslims "atrocities." The Armenians must, if they are true believers in Christ, right their own wrongs before calling on Turkey or anyone else to apologize . The Armenians must apologize for their terrible acts of 1918 and 1919 against Muslims. They must give back the lands of more than 1 million Muslims forced out of their homes and farms in 1992.
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