re baltic states and realism and virvir drivel in article sv r f m zip eecs umich edu sechrest dip eecs umich edu stuart sechrest writes memoirs of an armenian army officer translated to english and published by a member of american near east relief organization gives the whole account of the genocide of all turkish and moslem people in armenia organized and executed by armenian government and army also gives account of countless other massacres and atrocities against the turkish people in armenia actually it is leonard r as in ramsden hartill ditto source men are like that by leonard ramsden hartill the bobbs merrill company indianapolis pages memoirs of an armenian officer who participated in the genocide of million muslim people but as you point out so often there is no use arguing with easily verified facts as the turks had solved the armenian problem in turkey by slaying or driving the armenians out of the country so we now proceeded to solve the tartar problem in armenia we closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as ways of escape for the tartars and then proceeded in the work of extermination ohanus appressian from l r hartill men are like that the bobbs merrill company london p you have set up straw horses and knocked them down i m not impressed let us ask armenian scholars shall we source k s papazian patriotism perverted baikar press boston pp it seems that terrorism against their own co nationals has been a prominent part of the revolutionary activities of the dashnag leaders of the caucasus organized to fight the turks these chieftains have been more successful in their fight against their armenian opponents in turkey and the caucasus very often defenseless and innocent p we were defeated p the fact remains however that the leaders of the turkish armenian section of the dashnagtzoutune did not carry out their promise of loyalty to the turkish cause when the turks entered the war and a call was sent for armenian volunteers to fight the turks on the caucasian front p thousands of armenians from all over the world flocked to the standards of such famous fighters as antranik kery dro etc the armenian volunteer regiments rendered valuable service to the russian army in the years of by the way here is the entire paragraph we closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as ways of escape for the tartars and then proceeded in the work of extermination our troops surrounded village after village little resistance was offered our artillery knocked the huts into heaps of stone and dust and when the villages became untenable and inhabitants fled from them into fields bullets and bayonets completed the work some of the tartars escaped of course they found refuge in the mountains or succeeded in crossing the border into turkey the rest were killed and so it is that the whole length of the borderland of russian armenia from nakhitchevan to akhalkalaki from the hot plains of ararat to the cold mountain plateau of the north were dotted with mute mournful ruins of tartar villages they are quiet now those villages except for howling of wolves and jackals that visit them to paw over the scattered bones of the dead ohanus appressian men are like that p now wait there is more armenians did slaughter the entire muslim population of van armenians did slaughter of muslim population of bitlis armenians did slaughter of muslim population of erzurum armenians did slaughter of muslim population of diyarbakir armenians did slaughter of muslim population of mamuretulaziz armenians did slaughter of muslim population of sivas armenians did slaughter the entire muslim population of the x soviet armenia mccarthy j muslims and minorities the population of ottoman anatolia and the end of the empire new york university press new york pp karpat k ottoman population the university of wisconsin press hovannisian r g armenia on the road to independence university of california press berkeley and los angeles pp shaw s j on armenian collaboration with invading russian armies in history of the ottoman empire and modern turkey volume ii reform revolution republic the rise of modern turkey london cambridge university press pp gochnak armenian newspaper published in the united states may serdar argic we closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as ways of escape for the turks and then proceeded in the work of extermination ohanus appressian in soviet armenia today there no longer exists a single turkish soul sahak melkonian
