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Нерсисян М. Г., Саакян Р.Г.
ГЕНОЦИД АРМЯН В ОСМАНСКОЙ ИМПЕРИИ
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THE GENOCIDE OF THE ARMENIANS IN THE
OTTOMAN EMPIRE
COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS AND MATERIALS
Edited by prof. M. G. Nersissian
Summary
During World War I one of the most outrageous tragedies in human
history was plotted in the Ottoman Empire. The ruling clique of
Sultan's Turkey, to be more precise, the blood-mad horde of national-chauvinist
Young Turks, staged the barbaric annihilation of about one and a
half million Armenians and reduced the whole of Western Armenia
into a smouldering desert.
However, this blood-curdling misdeed of the Young Turks was the
acme of the nefarious practice of physically exterminating the Armenian
population of Turkey, such policy being initiated by the brutal
and sanguinary tyrant Sultan Abdul Hamid. That is why, when reference
is made to the genocide of the Armenians inhabiting the Ottoman
Empire, the notion should involve not only the wholesale massacre
of 1914—1918, but also the slaughters and persecutions en masse
at the turn of the 20th century.
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Under Sultan Abdul Hamid large-scale killings of Armenians were
executed in the 1890s. During August and September of 1894 Sassoun,
one of Armenian's mountain provinces, was looted and devastated,
while its population was put to the sword regardless of sex and
age. In the following two years (1895—1896) mass murders of Armenians
were performed in Constantinople, Erzroum, Marash, Sebastia, Van,
Kharberd and in many other towns and areas of Western Armenia and
Turkey. The Turkish authorities and assassins spread fire and sword
with unspeakable brutality. During Sultan Hamid's reign about 300
thousand peaceful, innocent Armenians were done away with.
The blood-stirring policy of Abdul Hamid respecting the Armenian
people was inherited by his successors— the Young Turks. Moreover,
being avowed chauvinist-pan-Turkists and aggressors they proved
to be superior in cruelty and ferocity. In conformity with their
expansionist and pan-Turkist designs Talaat bey, Enver pasha, Doctor
Behaetdin Shakir, Nazym bey and other ringleaders of the Young Turks
plotted the scheme of the decimation of the Armenian people which
they put into effect craftily, methodically and mercilessly in the
heat of World War I. One and a half million Armenians were victimized
by the Turkish murderers.
Progressive public opinion in many countries censured the crimes
of the Turkish barbarians. Vehement protests were voiced by such
world-famous personalities as Maxim Gorky, Valery Bryussov and Yuri
Vesselovsky in Russia, Anatole France, Jean Jores and Romain Rolland
in France, James Bryce in Britain, Fritjof Nansen in Norway, Karl
Libchnecht, Johannes Lepsius, Joseph Marrkwart in Germany and many
other outstanding representatives of literature, culture and the
sciences in almost all the countries of the world. However, the
voice of those noble people was strange and incomprehensible to
those ferocious bandits who went on with their execrable deeds.
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The end of an entire nation seemed to loom large. However, the
institution of Soviet power in Armenia put an end to the age-suffering
of the Armenian people. The overhanging danger of massacres and
pogroms was removed. With the assistance of Soviet Russia the Armenian
people commenced a new life, took the path of creative labour and
national revival.
This collection, dealing with the genocide of the Armenians in
the Ottoman Empire during 1876—1918, comprises documents and materials
from various sources— Armenian, Russian, Arab, Turkish, German,
French, English, American, Swiss, Greek and others. Most of these
archival documents are official reports and letters of consuls,
ambassadors and ministers, high-ranking officials and heads of government
as well as the testimonies of clericals and missionaries on the
wholesale slaughters of Armenians in Turkey. These significant and
authoritative documents, the authenticity of which raises no doubts,
illustrate in detail and veraciously the bloody crimes of the Turkish
hangmen and the appalling tragedy
that weighed upon the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire.
Extensive literature-research papers, sketches, memoirs, articles,
collections of documents, etc. — are available on the genocide of
the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the event being highlighted
by a great number of prominent historians, publicists, writers,
men of science and culture, high-ranking government officials and
others, from almost all the countries of the world. The authors
of all these publications passionately condemn the barbaric crimes
of Sultan Abdul Hamid and the Young Turks. Nowadays one can hardly
come across a literate man who should be unaware of the tragic fate
of the Armenian people.
Mildly speaking, however, one circumstance occasions wonder: many
official personalities and representatives of the intellectuals
of modern Turkey brazenly pervert
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the historical truth in their attempt to deny the genocide of the
Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. But the labours of the falsifiers
are futile. The lie they are promulgating is at once rotten, wanton
and shameless. This statement is eloquently borne out by the incontrovertible
documents of this volume.
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