Quotes regarding the Armeian Genocide

[StverDJ]

I got these quotes from a book called 'History and Culture of the Armenians' by Arthur Bayramyan.

 

Here is a link to the post on my blog

http://www.blogoid.net/2008/04/15-million-...roof-by-quotes/

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Stver jan, how are you bro jan... what's up!!! Bro only one favor I would need to ask you ~ please copy those quotes to the forum, our forum members try to stay out from 3rd party websites, and Blogs!!! Nothing personal to you, we just don't like blogs as much as the Forum!!! Thanks for sharing bro!

[StverDJ]

Sure, no problem. Here it is directly from my blog...

 

Before I start, here is the definition of genocide by the American Heritage Dictionary:

 

gen·o·cide (jěn’ə-sīd’)

n. The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.

 

Given the definition, genocide was committed by the Turkish Government against the Armenian people starting in April 24, 1915. Although there is overwhelming evidence that such events did occur, and despite the fact that several countries formally have accepted that the actions taken by the Turkish Government in 1915 are considered as genocide, Turkey still denies its role in the killing and deportation of Armenians living in what is now Eastern Turkey.

 

Quotes:

 

“The way to get rid of the Armenian Question is to get rid of the Armenians.”

-Ottoman Sultan, Abdul-Hamid II

 

“You have already been informed that the Government has decided to exterminate entirely all the Armenians living in Turkey. No one opposed to this can any longer hold administrative position. Without pity for women, children and invalids, however tragic the methods of extermination may be, without heeding any scruples of conscience, their existence must be terminated.”

-Minister of the Interior, Talaat *****, telegraphed the Governor of Aleppo on September 15, 1915

 

“I wish that you would get the American life insurance companies to send us a complete list of their Armenian policy holders. They are practically all dead now and have left no heirs to collect the money. It of course all escheats to the State. The Government is the beneficiary now. Will you do so?”

-Talaat *****, talking with U.S. ambassador Henry Morgenthau

 

“I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.”

-U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau

 

“When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and in their own conversation with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact.”

-Henry Morgenthau

 

“The government is indeed pursuing its goal of exterminating the Armenian race in the Ottoman Empire”

-German Ambassador, Hans von Wangenheim wrote on July 7, 1915

 

“Columns of soldiers, their Turkish and German officers watching smilingly, held children aloft by their hair as others, bayonets affixed, galloped past the youngsters in a devilish game to see if they could sever their heads from their bodies with one cut. Those youngsters who somehow managed to remain alive, were used in another game to test the strength of the soldiers. The strongest Turks vied against each other in a contest which called for bare-handedly ripping the children’s jaws apart in the shortest possible time. The quivering bodies were casually thrown to the ground and left to writhe in torture until merciful death brought an end to their suffering.”

-United States Congressional Record

 

“It is now apparent that the order for the extermination of the Armenians was issued early in April, 1915, and was put into effect with the cruel genius if the Turkish police and army troops. Telegraphic orders, in addition to sealed orders, were dispatched to administrators throughout the Empire. Lists of Armenian civic leaders were sent from Constantinople and they were quickly arrested and killed. The entire Armenian population is in danger of annihilation.”

-United Press reporter Henry Wood, on the scene at the time of the massacres

 

“Massacres and deportations were organized in the spring of 1915 under a definite system, the soldiers going from town to town. The official reports of the Turkish Government show 1,100,000 as having been deported. Young men were first summoned to the government building in each village and then marched out and killed. The women, the old men, and children were, after a few days, deported to what Talaat ***** called ‘agricultural colonies’, from the high, cool breeze-swept plateau of Armenia to the malarial flats of the Euphrates and the burning sands of Syria and Arabia…. Mutilation, violation, torture and death have left their haunting memories in a hundred beautiful Armenian valleys, and the traveler in that region is seldom free from the evidence of this most colossal crime of all the ages.”

-U.S. Major General James G. Harbord

 

Many people believe that the way you treat one case determines what others will do next. A good example of this lies here in this quote by the leader of the Nazis.

 

“Who after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

-Adolf Hitler

 

Given only these quotes, one would be convinced that the Armenian Genocide really did occur, but, surprisingly, many people still deny it till this day.

 

Quotes taken from History and Culture of the Armenians by Arthur Bayramyan

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Stver jan, thank you very much!!! Very informative too!!!