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土耳其種族滅絕

Rolf Slot-Henriksen

Translation into English by Henrik Ræder Clausen
Published by Foreningen Dansk Kultur, www.danskkultur.dk
Dedicated to the memory of those who suffered and died during these events.
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內容

The day of the

The idea of establishing an Osmannic empire………………………………………………………………….6
The fate of
The Sultan Abdul Mejid
The Macedonian Speech by Georg Brandes (1902)…………………………………………………………11
The massacre on the Bulgarian population…………………………………………………………………….12
Lecture by Georg Brandes in Berlin February 2nd 1903………………………………………………….13
The genocide against the Armenians, 1875-1876……………………………………………………………16
卡倫
The genocides in the Osmannic Empire 1908-1918………………………………………………………..25
A change in Muslim
Where did the deported
Eyewitness accounts of the massacres 1915-1918…………………………………………………………..32
The massacre on the Greeks 1923…………………………………………………………………………………38
The final elimination of the Greeks 1955………………………………………………………………………39

The day of the Armenians

April 24th marks the 'Crystal night' of the Armenians. This is the day when the government of Turkey initiated the genocide of the Armenians in East Anatolia. 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Turks in 1915 and 1916 in their attempt to destroy Armenia. Only in a smaller enclave in Caucasus did the Armenians survive, as well as in various pockets in the Middle East outside the reach of Turkey. But the Turkish state has since 1915 systematically lied to its people about this genocide. And the various international partners of Turkey have turned a blind eye in this matter. In some circles it has even become politically correct to ignore this.

In his speech in Obersalzberg on August 22nd 1939 Hitler told his army leaders with respect to the pending invasion of Poland: “Who today talks about the Armenians?” In other words, the brutality of the Germans would quickly be forgotten. And that would probably have been the case had the Germans won the war. A non-admitted crime becomes an incitement to others to commit similar acts, which we've seen both in the 40′s in Europe and in the 90′s in Africa.

When the Canadian parliament in 2004 declared that the Turkish killing of the Armenians in 1915 constituted genocide, the Turkish government sent a strong official protest to the Canadian parliament.

The Armenian day on April 24th should be turned into an official holocaust memorial day, and the Turkish genocide of the Armenians should be internationally recognized and condemned. It should no longer be permitted to let Turkey get away for free from their genocide on the Armenians. Turkey must be forced to publicly condemn the genocide on the Armenians in 1915, abroad as well as at home.

A fundamental problem here is that genocide is permissible according to Islam. In the Quran, Sura 4:91, is a recommendation of genocide on people who refuse to become Islamic. Turkey must also here be forced to distance itself from Islam.

Niels Erik Søndergård
Rasmus Rasks Allé 95
5250 Odense SV

介紹

'Genocide' is a concept that most people associate with the two large ideologies of the 20th century, communism and Nazism, who in termination camps, through hunger and deportations killed millions and millions of individuals. In particular the dreadful fate of the Jews comes to mind in the context of genocide. But others were also on the list of groups to be extinguished for their religiousness rather than their ethnicity. In the Soviet Union millions were killed for the sole reason that they were Christians. Of the originally 40.000 churches so many were closed or destroyed that at a time only 40 churches were active in the Soviet Union. And for Nazism, in particular Catholics were hated. In Poland alone, one third of the priests, monks and nuns were murdered. Even the Catholic bishop of Berlin was shot.

The third large 'ism', which stands behind a series of genocides of which few have ever heard, is Islam. Though being a religion, it is at the same time an extensive body of law and a system for society. With the institution of the Islamic caliphate and in the wake of the Islamic conquests, one people after another was destroyed. Genocide followed genocide, in particular at the conquest of Buddhist and Hinduistic areas, where millions were ruthlessly murdered. This booklet will restrain itself to the genocides that took place within the area of the Turkish caliphate in recent times, in particular the years 1875 through 1955. Here in particular the genocide of the Armenians stand out, also because of the inaction of the European countries. But also the genocides against the Macedonians, Bulgarians and Greeks will be covered.

The sources are chosen as broadly as possible: From Ernest Hemingway over Georg Brandes to the Danish heroine Karen Jeppe, who worked herself out for the dying Armenian people. Furthermore there are accounts from German, English and German consuls and officers, and a personal account of the atrocities a small Armenian girl endured during one of the Armenian death marches. The tale of the Armenian girl Serpouhi is in its simplicity and terror so grasping that it shows the vastness of the atrocities that took place.

My diligent research after broad sources led me to read horrors I had not thought possible. And I am not ashamed by stating that many tears were felled during the writing of this book.

The idea of establishing an Osmannic empire

Within the last 30 years waves of immigrants from Islamic countries have hits the shores of Europe. During this time Denmark alone has seen the establishing of a dozen organisations who wish to re-establish the Islamic empire, the Turkish caliphate, which ruled major parts of Europe, including Hungary, Crimea, Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus and parts of Ukraine.

Today Berlin has a population of at least 250,000 Turks and has developed into a capital of many of the Turkish Islamic movements who wish to re-instate the caliphate. The share of Turkish fundamentalists grows rapidly in Europe, now with 3.5 million Turks in Germany and 100,000 in Denmark. That the number of particular radical fundamentalists grows can be seen in Denmark, where Mille Görüs under the name DMGT now has 46 branches in Denmark and, with the support of city councils in Helsingør and Århus, have started to work on a new mosque and a school respectively, where hatred against non-Muslims is groomed.

The movement “New Osmanners”, another Turkish-Islamic movement striving for the
rebuilding of the caliphate, have their European headquarters in Berlin and have just issued a folder with this contents, describing the construction of a new European Osmannic empire in accordance with the instructions of the Quran:

“The Osmannic Empire was an empire of believers, who achieved world domination. Their extensive tolerance and respect for their fellow humans are still today a role model and completely outstanding throughout all empires throughout the history of the world. It has never repressed or exterminated anyone. They even set others under their protection, respected them highly, and strived to learn everything good from them, without doing any harm themselves. They permitted the conquered people to keep their traditions in their secular and religious life, and even maintained the churches of the Christians. The Osmannic Empire applied the bidding of Allah in daily practice and did not distinguish between private faith and the public sphere. The sultan was not egoistic, as were the emperors of earlier times, but was without egoism only serving his people.”

“The Osmanners were Muslims. They practised the true Islam full of love and tolerance, full of respect for others, honour and many other good qualities, which in the democracies are completely lost. They respected Jews and Christians highly for being believers…”

Similarly, the information folder for “The New International Osmanners” reads:

“That Islam has not been propagated by sword and fire is a scientific realisation. An exodus caused by hunger and climatic changes in the Arabic peninsula is the cause of its spreading, absolutely no religious wars from the side of Islam. Capitalism and its democracies have the sole purpose to cover the problems, divert public attention, veil the truth and keep quiet about it. Democracy gives bad forces the opportunity to gain power, so that manipulation, corruption, egoism and crimes are expanding through politics and the entire society without any chance for the government to prevent it. In the Osmannic Empire things were completely different. We therefore with a new caliphate modelled on the virtues of the Osmannic Empire.”

Source: Central office for The New Osmanners in Europe, Bellermanstrasse 95, Berlin.

The fate of Armenia

After Muhammad from 622 AD onwards had conquered and extinguished one tribe after another, his successors, the caliphs, went after the neighbouring countries. As early as the 7th century the Arabs sacked Armenia for the first time. For long periods battles raged between the East Roman Empire and Islam for the control of this part of the world. The Muslim armies advanced bit by bit, and eventually the Armenians had no chances. After the conquest of Amorium in 781 AD, the caliph al-Mitasim ordered the prisoners to be auctioned away in bundles of 10, because there was so many of them.

By the sacking of Thessaloniki in 903 22,000 Christians were given to the Arabic officers or sold as slaves. In 1064 sultan Alp Arslan laid Georgia and Armenia bare, and thousands were summarily executed. Written sources from Palestine, Egypt, Armenia and Anatolia, where Christian areas had been conquered and colonized, tells us that Christians unable to pay the djizya tax to the Muslims instead were obligated to deliver their children. They could then deduct a certain amount from the poll tax. The idea was systematically developed during the time of sultan Orkan in 1326, so that the Christians in Armenia and on the Balkans routinely would deliver their children to the Muslims as a tax. In the 9th century the Armenian people desperately attempted to throw the Arab Islamic yoke. But the army of the caliph moved into the country, and a mass slaughter followed, which coloured the entire country red from blood. One Islamic ruled followed the other, until the Islamic Turkish caliphate took over in the 16th century.

The legal status of Christians and Jews in the Islamic caliphate was disastrous. Aage Meyer Benedictson describes it in detail:

The lot given Christian people under the rule of Islam was founded on the principle that the 'herd', as the Christians were called (they were thought of as animals), lived only at the mercy of the Muslims, the 'herd' had no inherent rights… The Christian subjects were slaves, who Allah in his grace had given to his victorious children. They owed the believers everything: property, for the sultan was master of all property, and their work. Furthermore they had to pay severe taxes, for the sultan was also the owner of their bodies.

Thousands of Christian boys at age 4 to 8 were taken from the Christian homes,
circumcised, shaved and through a raising in Islamic tradition were turned into a solid army, which for long periods was the most fearful weapon of Turkey. The Christians suffered the humiliation to be subdued by their own stolen children. No Christian had a right to carry weapons, they were to obey or die, and because their faith was false, so were their hearts. They were outside the law, their testimony to a judge was valid only if verified by a Muslim.

The most scary, though, was the ideology that Islam tried to impart on the Muslims, that disbelievers would never do a good deed. If they did so anyway, it was merely an expression of Allah working through an impure tool. A Christian was a disregarded serf. In his clothing he was to be different so that all could see that here comes an infidel. The Christians were to stop and wipe the shoes for every passing Muslim, if he so desired. A cloth for this purpose should always be carried by a Christian or a Jew … Christians were not permitted to ring bells. Their lives were a teaching in humiliation and submission. They worked, but had their enemies steal the fruits of their labour. (Meyer Benedictson s. 131-132)

In 1453 the Turkish caliphate had conquered the capital of the East Roman Empire, the Christian city of Constantinople, and thus removed the last bulwark against Islam. From that age the entire Balkans were in the hands of Islam from Armenia through Ukraine, Crimea, Hungary, Bosnia, Albania and Serbia. Violent campaigns into Poland, Austria and Germany all the way to Nuremberg shook the European continent who had been indifferent to the plight of the Armenians and of Constantinople, Until then it was thought in the European capitals that “The holy grave is well guarded.” Now they were themselves in the line of fire. Any option for rebellion or liberation for Armenia and the Balkans were more remote than ever. Bloodbath followed bloodbath. The Armenians and other Christians, like Jews who refused to become Muslims, tarry their lives in submission and poverty, a destiny they could only escape by themselves becoming Muslms.

The most violent killings of the Armenians took place in the years 1876 through 1918 in several great waves. The number killed and exterminated is still in disputed. Turkey claims today that those who died did so only because of rebellion against the state, and that the number was quite limited. In reality between 300,000 and 1 million were killed in the years between 1876 and 1903. In the years 1915 to 1918 systematic killings of another 1 million to 1½ million Armenians took place. The combined number exceeds 2 million.

Ingeborg Maria Sick writes in her excellent book about Karen Jeppe, who spent her entire life helping Armenian children, about the terrible deportations that took place in 1916, where the Islamic caliph ordered events so horrific that it exceeds ones imagination, even when you take into account the Nazi killings of the Jews 25 years later. “Who can bear to hear of children cut into pieces with the scissors of their mothers, or of men held captive witnessing the rape of their small daughters, and then cut apart before their eyes. No, we do not wish to think of this. But they suffered this.”

But that actually corresponds to episodes in the life of Muhammad himself. His adopted son was to punish a woman for theft. He then decapitates her grandchildren before her eyes, and has her torn apart by camels while her daughters witness it. Muhammad praises his adopted son and as appreciation of his efforts gives her the daughters as slaves, and a cane with a silvery head.

Ingeborg Maria Sick writes: “In Urfa, the Edessa of king Abgar, the killings raged for three terrible days – and the last night the Turks put the city's Armenian population to the torch in the refuge they had sought in the cathedral of the city. A grand fire, raising to the skies as a recall of emperor Nero's living torches in Rome.” (p. 15). In Germany the priest Johannes Lepsius and rev. Lohman started a large movement among Christians in support of the Armenian people. In France, the Catholics organised large relief efforts. There was also published the magazine “Pro Armenia” with notables as Jaurés and Clemenceau. Switzerland established an aid committee like Denmark and Norway.

The Danish efforts are mainly known through the tireless efforts of Karen Jeppe to help her beloved Armenia. The first great Armenian aid collection in Denmark was inspired by king George of Greece. It was directed by the Danish queen Louise and her lieutenant Hennings. In the wake of this in particular the Christian association “Kvindelige Missionsarbejdere” (“Women missionary workers”) made a great share of the work.

The deportations in Armenia were remarkable, as the entire Armenian population was to be eliminated, not only in Armenia itself, but in all towns from Mesopotamia through Mosul. The goal was clear: complete elimination. The coded telegrams from the Turkish minister of foreign affairs to the prefect of Aleppo, later smuggled to the west, were clear. We shall quote just two:

“On request of the Djmi (the Young Turks Committee for Progress) the government has decided to exterminate all Armenians in Turkey. Without concern for women, children, the ill, feelings or conscience, their existence shall now be put to an end.”

Later this cipher telegram:

“We have heard that some of the persons mentioned have been sent to Syria or Palestine. This is an unforgivable error. Their goal for them is only one: Nothingness”

What did the west do? Governments did almost nothing. It was left to minor church
organisations and individuals to take action. The European states had too much at stake, and how could you take part for one religion against another?

To the Police office of Aleppo!
It has earlier been announced, that the Government on behalf of the Committee has decided to completely exterminate all Armenians present in Turkey. Those opposing this command can no longer be considered friends of the government (meaning 'traitors'). Without regard to women, children or the ill, however depressive the tools of destruction may seem, without consideration of feeling or conscience, their existence must be terminated.

Minister of internal affairs, Tala'at.

This amoral attitude lead to the governments remaining passive. Ingeborg Maria Sick asks in her book “Pigen fra Danmark” about Karen Jeppe:

“They let them die. Could we have done otherwise? Yes, shouldn't we? Is Christianity a great moral power – or not? Did it stand up as one man, when the greatest political prosecution erupted, waking, praying, fight, fast with them over there? Christians suffered with them; first and last the faithful delegates, God be praised also from Denmark, and others who expended their power to ease the suffering of the martyr people.” (p. 18)

Some of those who were running children homes or in other ways attempted to provide help, paid with their lives. The punishment for hiding an Armenian was capital. On this account both Americans and Europeans were executed, but where was the outrage from the secular, supposedly humanitarian European governments? They were silent.

Already during the first major pogroms dating back to 1876 Europe was silent, and the only friend of the Christians in Caucasus was Russia. Many of the countries had suffering 400-500 years of Muslim occupation, murders and exploitation, but the European powers were busy tending their own matters or even go into alliance with the suppressors.

Kaiser Wilhelm II proclaimed towards the Muslim world that he secretly had converted to Islam, in the hope that Muslim troops would rebel against England. That was partly successful, in that Muslims contingents in India and areas of what was to become Pakistan declared jihad, in that a Muslim cannot be fighting under the sovereignty of an infidel Christian queen.

The Sultan Abdul Mejid promise

In the 19th century the Islamic empires and the caliphate were increasingly weakened, as they stiffened in poverty and corrupt suppression, all while Europe advanced economically, scientifically and eventually also religiously through a major Christian awakening towards the end of the century. Factories and churches were built everywhere. And people were hearing accounts of the horrible suppression suffered by the Christians in the countries under Islamic occupation.

Strong pressure from the Christian public caused the sultan, in order to win sympathy and support from the European governments, to in 1839 issue the Hatt-i-Sjerif declaration (“The Noble Parchment”), where the sultan promised all subjects in all his conquered territories, indiscriminately of race and religion, protection of life, honour and property. Thus the sultan initiated a string of promises of improving the situation for Christians and Jews. But for the Christians, these promises were worse than nothing.

The governments of Europe now leaned back and pointed out the extensive tolerance found in Islam. Only in the major cities, where European diplomats lived, there was a short ease of conditions for the Christians. In all other places, the conditions worsened. As written by Aage Meyer Benedictsen, the people of supremacy would never subject themselves to demands from those openly called “Infidel Christian dogs” (p. 158).

After the Crimean war, where the western powers protected Turkey and guaranteed its borders, meaning its conquests and submission of dozens of Christian people, the sultan further granted a promise to the western power in 1856: “Hatt i Humajun” (the Imperial Parchment), where he promised all his subjects civil rights. “As all religious confessions enjoy and also in the future shall enjoy freedom in all my countries, not a single of my subjects shall encounter hindrances to exercise the belief, he confesses in, and must not suffer the slightest pressure in this respect.” (Aage Meyer Benedictsen p. 159)

In order to not open up inwardly, they let their population know what the treaty signified internally by a public hanging of the Armenian Hovakoim, because he out of confidence in the promises from the treaty had reverted to Christianity after he and his family had been forced with violence to convert to Islam. As a further humiliation during the hanging a hat, symbolizing Europe, was attached to his dead body, implicitly signifying a hanging of infidel Europe. The new promise was not tested further by any other of the forced converts to Islam. But one could say that the sultan merely acted as a good Muslim by following the law of the Quran of capital punishment to those who leave Islam.

Now it was important to show the subdued Christian peoples who was the lord and who was the slave. The Greek war of liberation had shown, that the Christians were now prepared to fight for their freedom. They needed urgently to prevent this. Every time European governments inquired about the state of things, they were met from the Islamic side with understanding, friendliness and a proud reporting of the great freedom and tolerance which had always reigned in Islam. Most let themselves be appeased.

Thus sultan after sultan had the freedom to commit one genocide after another against the Serbs, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Greeks and the Armenians. In the following we will in particular look at the genocides against the Macedonians and the Bulgarians. The so-called Macedonian speech by Danish author Georg Brandes (1902), here quoted from “Collected works of Georg Brandes”, is an important document in this context.

The Macedonian Speech by Georg Brandes (1902)

“While the class struggle as a fight for bread rages in the highest civilized countries of Europe and America, the less civilized countries are at the onset of the 20th century in a state more usually associated with the Middle Ages, with daily humiliations and killings, arson, rape and every kind of torture. The horrors caused by Muslim Turkey in Macedonia, and the disgrace against the Jewish population in Romania are, day by day, becoming increasingly incriminating, but at the same time Europe, being witness to the extermination of the Armenians, become increasingly indifferent to what happens in Macedonia and Romania in front of everyone. (countries conquered by the Islamic Ottoman Empire and forcibly being assimilated into the caliphate, controlled by violence and subversion).

In the spring the Macedonian intelligentsia launched the French bi-weekly “Le Mouvement Macedonien”, which has reported the Turkish rule of horror week for week. Several times this magazine attached illustrations to the text, as in July the picture of Macedonian leaders hanged at the bid of the Turks, and in August the picture of Turkish military police who, standing with their sabres, proudly were photographed in Monastir with cut-off heads of captured Macedonians on a little table in front of them.

In parts of the European press there has been a trend, supported by the Turkish representatives, to portray the violence committed by regular and irregular Turkish
troops against the Christians as a retaliations for their criminal raids. Thus the desperate defence of the suppressed are depicted as provocations. The rebellious flocks, which currently cover Macedonia, are not formed by order of the revolutionary committees.

一些農民，他的妻子穆斯林之前，他的眼睛被人強姦了，而並列嚇了一跳，其曾遭受酷刑小時，或在死亡邊緣bastonade（下雙腳跳動）的兒童，收集了同樣的組志同道合的受害者，他們希望採取報復。 一些牧羊人，羊群，他們綁架，誰擁有什麼，但他的槍，將他埋葬在森林深處，以防萬一，匯集了他周圍的其他desperates的一小部分。 更頻繁，但一個年輕的老師或醫生是由土耳其警方迫害，逃離到山上，因為他更喜歡等待他在監獄裡的酷刑死亡。 在他周圍聚集了十幾個其他迫害或威脅像
自己年輕的男人，誰一直鏈和人一樣，在土耳其穆斯林手中下跌鞭打。

誰可以質疑他們的野蠻行徑，當他們逃離酷刑？ 下遭受酷刑與鉗擠壓，直到尖叫聲頭骨組成自己的腳被鞭打後的村Eksjisu，老師在Zelemitsje，Natsef的，在五個農民。 然後埋在垃圾他們的脖子上，在這種狀態下保持三天，然後就掛斷了低頭。 他們兩個死了之，4人被莫納斯提爾逃脫。 像這樣的場景從字面上採取地方全年每天，所有在馬其頓。 當雜誌“馬其頓運動”在最近幾週已經公佈，它可能是由國家完全點燃的解釋。 通過奧地利雜誌“時代週報”我們正在不斷更新，在馬其頓問題的最重要事項。

抵達馬其頓村莊時，土耳其軍隊進行的第一件事是要求提供的所有武器。 如果你將提供他們嚇壞了，士兵們開始搶劫。 因此不高興的人口生存的恐怖統治之下。 戰士和游擊隊之間的戰鬥進行了激情和不顧危險軍事歷史上是前所未有的。

在Perlepe Kadion附近的一小撮叛亂分子由土耳其人感到驚訝，在一個古老的塔。 他們捍衛自己的整個白天和夜晚的一部分，當他們已經用盡了他們的火藥供應殺害自己氰化鉀。 當土耳其人在黎明時分進入塔中，他們發現了7具屍體。 領導小組組長Metodi Patsjef，從Ukrida，活潑，精力充沛，響亮，對穆斯林統治直言不諱，並被判三年監獄謀殺的年輕教師，儘管他是無辜的，並存在一個藉口。 當他被從監獄中釋放，在那裡他遇到了其他無辜被判入獄像自己，他只有單想藉此報復他的劊子手。 他發現，死亡的嘗試。 將同樣發生在其他所有勇敢的領導人對穆斯林佔領，發生在他身上嗎？ 我們會看到馬其頓分享對亞美尼亞人的命運嗎？“

沒有歐洲流行的運動是強大到足以使他們的政府干預。 雖然人口曙光基督教覺醒，政客們不同的親屬。 對於他們來說，只有寒冷的計算和現實政治的考慮。 贏得政治計算，特別是對俄羅斯的不信任。 俄羅斯曾多次以武力進行干預，以保護一個基督教人口此起彼伏，屠殺時變得過於激烈，但在世俗化的歐洲各國政府不會讓他們宗教的影響。 他們擔心沙皇和俄羅斯在巴爾幹地區的基督徒，有太大的影響，在希臘和土耳其。 英國和法國一再迫使俄羅斯救援部隊干預的威脅和土耳其的善意交談。

到何種程度上是決定性的政治演算，可以看出，從英國的藍皮書，土耳其1876年，這是一個從英國代表在君士坦丁堡（伊斯坦布爾），亨利爵士埃利奧特的答复，英國外交大臣。 他的話表明沒有猶豫可怕的事實，所謂的文明的歐洲政策。 本藍皮書是寫在殺人後，在保加利亞的英國人口的基督徒之間的憤慨之際。

他寫道：“我們能夠，也應該覺得在無用的，沉悶的硬度與保加利亞解放運動被粉碎激怒，但被迫的位置，在英格蘭發現自己，要求避免任何對自己不利的變化，不能讓我們的影響問題多少人喪生在保加利亞;可怕的暴行，不能有足夠的理由放棄我們的政策，理應被我們的社會福利方面的“。

這是對伊斯蘭教的罪過，征服和屠殺政策，閉著眼睛，可能有種族滅絕按照歐洲土壤另一個塞爾維亞人，猶太人，希臘人，馬其頓，保加利亞，亞美尼亞人。 和相同的，可今天聽到的，當辯護士，淡泊伊斯蘭種族滅絕，讚美的開放性和寬容以及伊斯蘭教的“古蘭經”的美麗。

保加利亞人口的大屠殺

於1876年在保加利亞大屠殺的文章達到通過美國記者司法機構政務長的Mac加恩，誰是受僱於在倫敦每日新聞的文章英語。 他已抵達伊斯坦布爾（君士坦丁堡）3個月後的大屠殺，並進入保加利亞，前往與他自己的眼睛了什麼發生。 1876​​年8月7日的文章提出英語是小的選擇，而是一個可怕的故事，後來成為一整本書，是指導餘生記者。 下面簡短摘錄了他在抵達的巴塔克保加利亞的城市。 在波斯尼亞和黑塞哥維那的基督教人口反抗伊斯蘭佔領軍的。 不久也保加利亞了不安。 已經太殘酷鎮壓。 但解放的企圖導致可怕的大屠殺。

他的到來給巴塔克gahans的描述如下：

“我數了數，而我仍然坐在馬，約100名以外的城市婦女和兒童的頭骨，所有的頭骨完全清除動物。 然後，我們進入了鎮。 在道路兩旁的廢墟的骷髏堆之間，或充分穿著他們已經迷迷糊糊的。 這是肩長長的棕色頭髮的女孩和婦女的骨骼。 我們到達了教堂。 這裡的地面被完全覆蓋的骨骼，頭骨和腐爛，身著機構。 惡臭是難以忍受的。 然後，我進入墳墓。 整個墓地充滿屍體堆放一米多高，只能部分覆蓋的大地。 隨處可見的小手，腳和兒童最漂亮的頭髮首長探出頭來。 教堂內的事項是更糟。 在地板上堆腐爛，無擔保的機構。 我從來沒有經歷過令人震驚和可怕的事情。 ......在學校，這是一個美麗的建築，200名婦女和兒童已被活活燒死。

無處不在的城市相同的情況重演......誰犯下這些暴行 - 艾哈邁德阿迦 - 該名男子現已被提拔蘇丹，並保持該地區的州長。 土耳其人沒有犯罪進行過處罰，甚至被起訴。 可怕的對巴塔克居民的行動背後的人的想法，他們進行了預成型真主的工作。“（波爾Fregosi。394），一名保加利亞穆斯林第五縱隊單位甚至協助土耳其人屠殺自己的人民。

在1878年的柏林會議，這是由俾斯麥主持，與會者有來自俄羅斯，奧地利，英國，法國，意大利和土耳其，迫使蘇丹產生保加利亞，羅馬尼亞和塞爾維亞穆斯林佔領和鎮壓，初步結束了500多年的自由暴力的穆斯林殖民化的努力，但在過去的20年已恢復科索沃，其中包括幾乎所有古老的教堂通過爆炸，拆卸或焚燒銷毀，並驅逐原塞族人口的伊斯蘭。

柏林2月2日1903年勃蘭兌斯的演講

本次演講後舉行的兩個“小”種族滅絕亞美尼亞在1876年和1894年至1896年等至1900年。 在這些年中喪生的人數已計入任何地方從300.000百萬，根據指作者之一。 布蘭德斯沒有經歷過的種族滅絕自己並沒有前往例如卡倫葉普，。 他的來源主要是的奧格邁耶Benedictsen以及德語和英語的文章。

“今天即使統治者被迫考慮到一個強大而統一的發言的意見，因此，它是重要的呼喊，直到這種輿論在所有國家中喚醒。 “和平的宗教”的信徒殺害，死在街頭的兒童的機構。 沒有至少在德國的土地。 他們都知道，在過去十年中的土耳其亞美尼亞一直是這種恐怖的場景，世界歷史上幾乎沒有報告任何類似甚至從最壞的時代。 沒有人，之前，我們經歷了它，認為它可能是一個完整的人口可以舉行如勒索，酷刑和大規模屠殺。 成千上萬的血尖叫天...

我知道，土耳其是連接友誼的債券，以德國電源。 ...提高對亞美尼亞人的事業，在德國的民意，現在可能有決定性的作用。 亞美尼亞如果沒有他們，但他們的災害，這將是不可能拒絕他們的參與。 他們所遭受什麼也很難說，要少得多的描述，聽眾將舉行自己的耳朵，他們的手。 只是說明，300.000喪失了生命，使只是一個表面的印象，並沒有引起太多的想像力。

例如有什麼用的消息，在1894年三個星期長的大屠殺了在Musj周圍村莊，漠然，男人，婦女和兒童被砍掉了，到處都是暴力對婦女的承諾之前，他們死了，你會給200或300一個士兵強姦婦女，他們用刺刀或軍刀殺死！

有什麼用，它涉及從德國遊客的地方報告：在Kendranz的庫爾德人給了對方強姦5歲或以上的任何一個女人的字！ 或者告訴在另一個地方高達60年輕婦女和女童被鎖入一個小教堂，士兵強姦，最後被殺害了他們。 血最終流通過教堂的大門。 為了使一個難忘的印象，需要進入細節。 成千上萬的人被殺害數百使一個印象，他們如何被殺害單獨。 一名女子倒到她的膝蓋和乞求戰士饒了她的生活 - 在現實中兩個人的生命。 “它是一個男孩還是女孩？”，士兵喊道。 和他們賭上一個男孩7 medsjidie。 “現在，讓我們看看！”，並剖開她的肚子。 有關此人有關的所有情況和證人的姓名。 庫爾德人在另一個位置，以了，如果他們能夠一舉削減四個孩子的頭，和定居前母親眼中的賭注。

在第一天的大屠殺Trebisund亞美尼亞退出一家麵包店，他在那裡為他生病的妻子和他的孩子買了麵包。 他是一個穆斯林的囈語帶驚訝。 他求饒。 假裝接受不傷害他。 他認為，他們和他們真誠的感謝。 但他們只是決策開玩笑。 他們把他的腳。 他們砍掉一方面，並摑他的臉，用血腥的手。 然後，他們砍掉另一方面。 然後，他們建議他做的十字標誌，而其他人認為他喊響，為了使他的神可能會聽到他。 一次性削減自己的耳朵，第一個東西放進嘴裡，然後扔在他的臉上。 另一個喊道：“埃芬迪口必須拒絕這樣的美味小吃的懲罰！”他們砍了他的舌頭。 “現在，他可以不再褻瀆。”一個彈出他的一隻眼睛。 非常承包的臉，可憐的身體痙攣鼓勵這些狂熱分子：他們蹦出來的另一只眼睛和削減了他的腳前，他們給他用匕首刺在喉嚨晉級決賽。

（許多女士哭，其他人站起來，不少離開大廳。）

後來，在英語從在Erserúm的領事館的報告中描述的場景從村里Semál，前大屠殺的地方：亞美尼亞偶氮拒絕了在一些地方的男人最好轉向。 穆斯林法官塔里布埃芬迪和兩名土耳其船長讓他被折磨了整整一夜。 首先，他收到bastonade（擴展跳動下用棍棒腳）。 然後，他們把他綁赤裸的雙臂攤開兩個暗礁，鞭打開始。 不幸的不能動彈的肢體，在他的臉上，收縮透露他的痛苦。 他尖叫，他們擊敗了他。 他懇求他的遺囑執行人，要殺死他。 他試圖打破對暗礁他的頭骨。 它是可以避免的。

當他仍然拒絕對他自己的見證，不希望無辜人的血玷污自己，塔里布首先讓他的鬍子用鉗子撕裂，然後讓他的身體泛著鐵治療，燒毀了他的手在他的臉上，腳和身體更敏感的部位。 一個發光塘與他的舌頭被燒毀。 三次，他昏了過去，但仍然挑釁。 在隔壁房間裡有他的妻子和孩子，免於恐懼的僵硬，被迫聽到他的痛苦。

然後之一，這裡的犯人，有時無法躺下或坐，在可怕的污垢，由數百步履蹣跚，也被飢餓和遭受酷刑，監禁在​​比特利斯。 我知道它已經感覺到它。 你 - 我的聽眾 - 聽到我的不滿。 你按自己不喊我：“夠了！ 夠了！“

我注意到，很多女士已經離開了大廳。 它一直聽這可怕的。 我問你乘幾十萬我已經給你的痛苦，並考慮從柏林的女士們無法忍受聽證會，亞美尼亞人遭受了十萬倍以上。

這已在過去十年中，在我們這個時代的地方，四，五天的旅遊離這裡 - 我們必須讓它發生，並沒有做什麼，以防止它。 很長一段時間被警告歐洲。 為謀殺Sassún的準備工作使公眾在Erserúm英國領事館在很長的報告，要求對亞美尼亞人的保護。 英國拒絕“干涉內政的友好力量。”。 這是永恆的公式。

這是前所未聞：歐洲，雖然沒有再無知，這些暴行的繼續。 即使是現在的亞美尼亞人搶了他們的自由，財產和降低分數。 我可以把數以百計的例子。

舉個例子：五百年的庫爾德人在1900年7月3日包圍了村莊Spaghánk。 用子彈，軍刀和刺刀，他們上班去了。 婦女和兒童跑了出來求饒的士兵。 最小的孩子，還活著，尖叫，舉起上了刺刀的空氣中;婦女被脫光衣服，虐待和殺害。 80的老人，村里的牧師，嘴裡雙方已剖開他的下巴被拽出。 胃的孕婦Timene的，嫁給祭司助理，剖開，切成片和殺害的女人的孩子，刺傷了50倍。

1878年亞美尼亞教會的元老，Nerses，男子在柏林國會授權的信件發送。 和他有運氣，以使國會制定第61條，其中，以確保未來的亞美尼亞。 這篇文章中，承諾仍然沒有兌現，仍希望任何朋友亞美尼亞事業必須堅持。

歐洲出現，已採取的保護下被抑制。 不幸的是，參與並不意味著認真。 和亞美尼亞人敢指揮他們的請願書，歐洲的情況下，進一步激怒了土耳其政府對他們的辛酸。

亞美尼亞研究所在君士坦丁堡（伊斯坦布爾）是封閉的，亞美尼亞的歷史教學，組裝，控股方，講座等禁止。 記者遭到嚴重的審查。 監禁和迫害的頻率增加。 庫爾德人組織對亞美尼亞人的騎兵團的名義下Hamidiéh。 蘇丹提供這些非正規部隊，他自己的名字和他公佈了他們不幸的鄰居，他們掠奪他們，並擊敗他們。 當亞美尼亞人參加了抵抗，政府不得不為了消除異教徒的人口，即基督教，使用大規模酷刑和大規模屠殺的藉口。

在柏林國會奧斯曼政府不得不在第61條有義務制定必要的改革，保證對亞美尼亞人的安全，並因此被追究責任，不時。 被授予的簽署這些措施的實施監督的權利。 在此後15年來土耳其安撫西方列強空話。

如果土耳其則出於本身回應頒布了大規模屠殺，英語，俄語和法語的代表堅持票據，他們只是鼓勵他們這樣做 - 即使承認的渴望和知情的愛國者遊客保羅Rohrbach - 因為優秀與德國的關係，使人們有可能對土耳其政府。 由於缺乏統一的，他們能夠漏網之魚和刺刀和長矛，鋒利的軍刀，泛著鐵，強姦和縱火的手段壓制亞美尼亞。

沒有人能否認個人的德國婦女以及男人證明自己有用。 德國的慷慨已經採取了照顧孤兒，幫助提高他們。 大家也知道愛德華·伯恩斯坦的講話，這是眾所周知的男子像萊普修斯，引人關注的是失去了這個他祭司就業，一切為了與他的同胞德國的真相亞美尼亞拋出。

沒有少，沒有德意志帝國和土耳其政府之間的密切關係，上個世紀最偉大的政治罪行不會成為可能。 因此它是至關重要的，至少在德國，創建支持亞美尼亞人的意見。

在最有名的古冰島傳奇的女人拋出了一個相對不大的傾角把她帶的一部分，為了將他採取報復死者，他殺死丈夫的血浸濕的斗篷。 在這種情況下，沒有人認為報復。 但是，如果有可能拋出的斗篷，僵硬與亞美尼亞受害者的血液，德國人的肩膀上，以推動德國政府要求的古老而光榮的亞美尼亞族人倖存者的安全和自由，這將是最有用的。

（文集布蘭德斯，體積第十七）

對亞美尼亞，1875-1876種族滅絕

在1876年登上一個新的蘇丹伊斯蘭哈里發的，Osmannic帝國領袖的寶座。 穆罕默德總理，最高法院法官和軍隊指揮官在他的時間，和他有同樣廣泛的權力，由哈里發。 哈里發，這是根據伊斯蘭法律成立，註冊成立的伊斯蘭教征服的地區最重要的是：埃及，敘利亞，黎巴嫩，伊拉克，土耳其，亞美尼亞，庫爾德斯坦，希臘和最後君士坦丁堡，已更名為Islambul。 此外，這些地區的落後君士坦丁堡也被征服了：羅馬尼亞，保加利亞，阿爾巴尼亞，波斯尼亞和塞爾維亞。

大部分被征服的地區完全是基督教國家，但特殊的伊斯蘭法律，阻止穆斯林皈依基督教，意味著異族通婚的子女被迫成為穆斯林，皈依伊斯蘭教的事實，為公眾持有的強制性辦事處，引起基督徒的比例下降，而穆斯林上升。 作為穆斯林國家，只能從非穆斯林提取，伊斯蘭戰爭的特別稅，因此，很多人都覺得自己被迫成為穆斯林，如果他們要生存困難時期。

然而，即使在的阿卜杜勒Hamit為蘇丹在1876年的上升，只有40％的人口在土耳其本身是土耳其人。 庫爾德人也是穆斯林，但即使在1900年9萬基督徒居住在該地區構成現今土耳其。 ，僅世紀後的今天，只有50,000保持。 其餘發生了什麼事？

阿卜杜勒·哈米德要加強以新穎的方式柔和人口的穆斯林統治。 直到那時，伊斯蘭教已銳減迫使他們向穆斯林提供子女的基督徒，許多基督徒婦女分為穆斯林harems納入通過婚姻。 新奇的是徹底根除基督教人口。 在蘇丹問題的亞美尼亞人最勤奮和成功​​。 超過一千年，他們倖存的穆斯林迫害和滅絕的企圖。 每次重新出現，並成為節儉的商人與文化，藝術和詩歌的高度讚賞。

由蘇丹阿卜杜勒Hamit使用的工具是土耳其軍隊和土耳其警察和庫爾德人，他們是穆斯林。 他配備了現代步槍的庫爾德人，並給他們有關的軍事技能。 serpouhi Tavoukdijan寫在他的著作“外籍”，換取他們的武器，他們的任務是殺害亞美尼亞人。 他們被賦予的權利，自由的亞美尼亞婦女強姦的刑罰，並期待屬於被殺害的亞美尼亞人的房屋和商店。

In the beginning the Armenians put up some resistance, in spite of their almost complete lack of weapons. Then Abdul Hamid reinforced the Kurds with regular Turkish troops and let proclaim a “Holy war” against the infidels in the country. Endless killings of civilians broke lose, executed by Turkish army units and civilian Muslims. The killings took place in the eastern, western, northern and southern Turkey, everywhere Armenians were to be found. So many were murdered and starved “that the diligent defender of Islam had to admit, that the Armenians no longer could be of particular danger to the Ottoman state, at least not for the next generations time. He was forced to declare the holy war ended.” (Tavoukdjian, p. 18)

He was forced to do this as several countries, not least France, had been alerted to the systematic genocides taking place in the Islamic empire. The European countries had so far turned the blind eye to the genocide and the terrible oppression suffered by the Christian populations there. But the killings continued in remote areas.

In January 1896 a booklet was published in London with the title “The haunting Horror in Armenia” (subtitled: “Who will be damned for this?”) A black front page with bloody red letters covered this 64 page booklet, which was meant to alert the British to the events. The booklet describes the terrifying massacres in Turkey 1875-1876 and warns that equally terrifying events might be on their way. The booklet also provides statistics of Armenian massacres dating from September 30th to November 30th 1875. These are original Turkish statistics.

Here is stated that in Armenian cities hunger reduced the population by 75,000 and in villages the number was reduced by 350,000. On top of this comes the number of directly killed Armenians: In Armenian cities 20,000, villages 3,300. During less than one year a total of 2,500 villages were completely eliminated. A statistics of who executed the massacres is also provided.

In Constantinople only 172 were murdered. This was done by the police on the 30th of September. In Trebizunt the Turkish army killed 800 with assistance from civilian Turks. In Baiburt on October 13th 1000 Armenians were killed by Turkish civilians. In Bitlis on October 25th 900 were killed by soldiers and Kurdish Muslims. In Kara Hissar on October 25th 450 were murdered by Turkish military and Turkish and Kurdish civilians. In Erzerum on October 30th 800 were killed by civilian Turks and Turkish military. In Urfa on November 3rd 300 were killed. In Arabkir on November 6th 2000 were killed by Kurds and Turks. In Malatia on November 6th 250 were killed. In Haarpoot on November 11th 1000 were killed by Turkish soldiers and civilians Turks and Kurds. In Sivas on November 12th 1200 were killed by Turkish soldiers and civilians In Marsovan on November 15th 125 were killed by Turks. In Cesarea on November 30th 1000 were killed by Muslim Kirgisians and Turks.

The list is much more comprehensive, but the dates and the exact number of killed Armenians is lacking for many cities. The huge number who subsequently starved to death were victims of new laws forbidding Armenians to purchase food, which caused hunger and death, first among the Armenian population in the cities. The trade ban was total, all selling to and buying from Armenians was forbidden. The book relates that in Erzerum, after the relatively modest massacres of 800 killed, 5000 Armenians remained, who had no possibility to purchase even a single slice of bread.

As most Armenians lived in villages, a different tactic was applied here, namely the total destruction of the villages and every kind of Armenian agriculture and crops. The only persons permitted to buy food and survive were those who had converted to Islam. The message to destroy the Armenian villages was distributed through the mosques and passed on to the faithful muslims: “According to the Sunni-law, the killing and plunder of infidels is as much an act of worship and prayer.” (p. 51).

如果亞美尼亞人有任何的概念是什麼即將發生，他們去的村幹部，誰告訴他們，他們有恃無恐，他們受到保護。 幾天後，一個共同的信號在村里，於是穆斯林鄰國和士兵襲擊的亞美尼亞人，在瘋狂搶劫，強姦和謀殺。 造成倖存的亞美尼亞人被勒令挖萬人坑幾天後，所拋出的屍體，並燒毀他們以同樣的方式在他的天先知在麥地那手無寸鐵的猶太人挖萬人坑。

筆者繼續介紹如何穆罕默德在麥地那的例子後倖存的婦女和兒童被分佈在穆斯林男子，並成為被迫皈依。 （第51-52頁）。 小冊子增加了進一步的警告：“看來，消滅和摧毀亞美尼亞村莊，這竟然是一個巨大的成功，該計劃將被應用到其他少數民族的哈里發，而且現在已經一個恐怖政權統治君士坦丁堡（伊斯坦布爾）（第52頁）。 這本小冊子，由野生Staed撰寫，旨在警告針對英國的恐怖還是來自穆斯林一方對在征服領土的非穆斯林少數民族，因此，印刷大量庫存和銷售只有1先令美元。 但它只有在基督教界稱為。 統治者和權力的人變成了聾子的耳朵，從而成為一些在人類歷史上最嚴重的種族滅絕的幫兇。

蘇丹阿卜杜拉UL哈米德大屠殺1895年至1896年

被勒令從最高的地方，從整個伊斯蘭神職人員和阿訇數以千計的積極參與，蘇丹自己的種族滅絕的蘇丹阿卜杜勒-UL-哈米德。 大多數大屠殺迄今採取的波斯和美索不達米亞的郊區地方，但新的蘇丹決定，對基督徒的戰鬥應在帝國的心臟。 原來的人口應該被淘汰為好，原本是一個基督教國家，土耳其，現在應該成為純粹的伊斯蘭。

猶太人，基督徒和拜火教徒：伊斯蘭法律征服的人民和穆斯林宗教必須被消滅，如果他們不屬於三個保護組的命令。 因此，佛教徒和印度教徒被殺害毫不手軟，無論伊斯蘭軍隊征服新領土。 佛教和印度教，改信伊斯蘭教或被殺的選擇。 現在，蘇丹阿卜杜勒-UL-哈米德·適用於帝國內部的基督徒相同的規則：要么成為穆斯林或死亡。

Sussan，1200基督徒被殺害，男人，婦女和兒童的城市，在1894年夏天開始屠殺。 然而，他們沒有得到的機會，成為穆斯林。 此外，一些基督教婦女被掠奪，這是穆斯林男子的性使用的奴隸。

最初蘇丹變相增加稅過高的水平上不忠的殺戮。 當公民無力支付，作為懲罰蘇丹給了庫爾德穆斯林鄰居在該地區殺害基督徒的自由，作為獎勵接管異教徒的房屋和土地，按照古蘭經的承諾，忠實可能接管異教徒的土地。 這個順序其後陸續擴展到一個村莊。 如果任何村選擇了為自己辯護，土耳其軍隊用大砲攻擊他們。 從庫爾德穆斯林蘇丹第一順序去如下：“從基督教的狗，你的願望。”

當殺人出名，英國要求知道發生了什麼事，並要求放置在君士坦丁堡的檢查員。 但蘇丹否認所有要求，並用自己的權利“taqiyia”，是對伊斯蘭教的異教徒躺在他否認有罪，並告訴所有的故事只是由於亞美尼亞發起反伊斯蘭的謠言和誹謗。

蘇丹使用他最好的演技，假裝英語的指控，並要求將深受侮辱，接觸了教皇在羅馬要求的無辜（himself!）的保護。 (Aage Meyer Benedictsen p. 2) While the west was conducting polite diplomacy and the sultan calmed the European worries, he simultaneously prepared for the final showdown with the “Armenian slanderers and hate preachers”. The first demand was for all Christians to hand over their weapons. Which were subsequently distributed to their Muslim neighbours! “

All was now prepared, and the time came around. It is clear that the killings were perceived by the general public as the will of the sultan. It was also obvious that they were executed according to minutely executed and guided plans, that they started and stopped on cue. And it is clear that not a single of the murderers or rapists ever were punished, and that leading civil servants were rewarded and promoted for their participation, while the reluctant were removed or punished. This was no spontaneous outbreak of fanaticism or public rage.” (Aage Meyer Benedictsen p. 193)

Trumpets blowing or the muezzin calling to prayer from the minarets initiated the genocide in each location, and trumpets sounding from the mosques ended each round of killings. Care was taken not to kill Europeans, as that would cause problems. The population was killed and their The Armenian Katholichos Mekrtitj Crimean “Hajrik” property divided; this was used as a lure to intensify the killings. The killings were undertaken with such discipline that a single gesture from an unarmed gendarme could keep the murderous mob away from American property.

The overture to the killings took place in Constantinople on September 30th 1895 and continued in Trapezunt, where the Armenians were driven out to be thrown in the sea and drowned. This procedure continued in the cities Erzingian, Baibuart, Bitlis, Erzerum, Arabkir, Diabekir, Malatia, Kharput and Sivar, and culminated in the terrible Christmas killings in Urfa 1895.

At Christmas the entire Armenian population of Urfa was rounded up and locked into the Christian cathedral, which was then set on fire. 1200 burned to death. Later killings took place in Constantinople and in Van in 1896. The written orders in the city of Arabkir is typical for the orders preceding the killings:

“All who are children of Muhammad, must now perform their duty and kill all Armenians, plunder their houses and burn them. Not a single Armenian must be spared!” Thus was the order of the sultan. “Those who do not obey this are to be considered Armenians themselves, and killed. Therefore every Muslim must show his obedience to the government and Islam by first killing the Christians, who lived in friendship with him!” (Meyer Benedictsen p. 195-196)

The supreme military leader of Anatolia in Erzingian distributed this command with an additional remark: “Kill the pigs.” The mob, who were incited to the killings and confiscating their property was protected by regular units of the Turkish army, who immediately opened fire if the Christians sought to defend themselves. They would either use cannons against the housing areas or merely watch passively.

“Left behind in the disgraced, destroyed homes sat the women and children among the bleeding bodies of their kin, themselves stiff from horror. In some places also the women were killed, but in most places the victors merely subjected them to abuse, rape and looting, and numerous flocks of orphans would wander about. The Armenian killings were initiated by the Turkish administration in order to gain the understanding and support of the Muslim population! (Meyer Benedictsen p. 195-196)

The intention was to use terror to drive as many as possible to Islam. That was the essence of the Abd-ul-Hamid plan. Therefore all men had to be murdered. Women could pass as slaves in Muslim homes, and children raised to be Muslims by killing their parents. This brought the caliph closer to his goal, the complete elimination of the original Christian population, whose country the Turks had occupied. The Turkish authorities in several instances gave the Christian population hits that by circumcision and conversion to Islam they would avoid death, “for this is the will of Allah and the prophet!”, it was said.

With high-strung forced ceremonies and circumcision of hundreds of Christians it was confirmed that they wanted to avoid death. At the same time it was made clear that those who did not follow suit could expect a terrible death. In particular in the provinces of Sivas, Bitlis, Van and Diabekir villages of forced conversions could be counted by the hundreds.

In 60 villages in the province of Karput not a single priest was left alive, not a single church remained. 568 churches in this area were levelled, while another 282 were converted to mosques. In a total of 559 villages those Armenians who survived the massacres were forced to convert to Islam. After the massacres all crucifixes were broken in public, the holy Bible spatted upon, its papers torn out and used for toilet paper.

An example shows what would take place if one would not forsake ones faith. In Biredjik, where 240 families who refused to become Muslims were destroyed, one old man was made an example of what would happen to the Christians who refused to become Muslims. When he refused to swear off Christ, he had his clothes torn off and was placed on burning charcoal. While he was writhing in agony, the Bible was held before his eyes and he was told to find some prophecies in the Bible worth trusting. Then he was nailed to planks. It happened several times that the instructions in the Quran to crucify the infidels was carried out. Then they shouted at him: “Call upon England! Call upon your Christ! Let him take you down!”

The worst fate awaited the leading Christian Armenians: teachers, doctors and priests. First they were arrested, then subjected to terrifying torture. Their hair was scorched with fire, the remaining hair and nails pulled out with tongs. They were then hanged for hours head down, while the executioners burned holes in their bodies with glowing rods. Often their wives and children were forced to watch the gruesome torture.

As the atrocities continued, more and more Armenians sought to defend themselves. As they had no weapons it was difficult, but in Zeitun in Kilikia seven Armenian villages defended themselves along with four Turkmenian. These villages were like birds nests on the sides of mountains. 10,000 inhabitants here resisted the attacks of 60,000 Turkish soldiers from November 1895 through February 1896. The population of Zeitun was spared after interference from the English Consul.

But what else did Europe do during this?

沒有。 They preferred to maintain friendly relations with Turkey and the sultan. “
words of the sultan that it was just a set of unfriendly rumours against Islam were believed! “Islam is a religion of peace!” It was repeated over and over. This soon caused trouble for the sultan, for how to exterminate the Armenians in Constantinople, where the European diplomats were located?

The opportunity came in 1896. In order to attract European attention and help, 20 young Armenians occupied a bank and threatened to blow up the building, unless the Europeans helped them avoid total annihilation. They miscalculated. The sultan issued a statement declaring that Armenians were now attacking Turks everywhere, and that strict punishment was due.

Next day the systematic cleansing of the Armenians commenced. Quarter for quarter they were taken away and murdered. Thousands were beaten to death with clubs and iron rods. Long rows of horse charts were lined up to drive the heaps of bodies away from the streets. The killings lasted two days and stopped as suddenly as they had started. In these two days 6000-7000 Armenians were killed in the city, while the European press declared their understanding for the need of the Turks to defend themselves! In Germany, though, Dr. Johannes Lepsius in his book “Eine Anklage” (An Accusation) systematically documented the genocide through eyewitness accounts. But nothing happened.

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