re baltic states and realism and virvir drivel in article may husc harvard edu verbit brauer harvard edu mikhail s verbitsky writes what is the mental disease when the patient repeats the same sentence over and over as a response to any kind of outside intrusion mutlu has similar symptomatic anyway the only difference is that he has a bigger database with your level of understanding my dear friend mutlu probably thought that he d be nice and help you genocide apologist to get the point besides all your article reflects is your abundant ignorance ignorance is probably the main reason why you historical revisionist are in such a mess you even make nazi criminal armenians laugh in soviet armenia today there no longer exists a single turkish soul it is in our power to tear away the veil of illusion that some of us create for ourselves it certainly is possible to severe the artificial life support system of an imagined ethnic purity that some of us falsely trust as the only structure that can support their heart beats in this alien land sahak melkonian preserving the armenian purity an appropriate analogy with the jewish holocaust might be the systematic extermination of the entire muslim population of the independent republic of armenia which consisted of at least percent of the population of that republic the memoirs of an armenian army officer who participated in and eye witnessed these atrocities was published in the u s in with the title men are like that other references abound rachel a bortnick the jewish times june men are like that by leonard a hartill bobbs co indianapolis 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 adventures in the near east by a rawlinson dodd meade co eyewitness account of the same genocide by a british army officer world alive a personal story by robert dunn crown publishers inc new york another eyewitness account of the same genocide by an american officer from sardarapat to serves and lousanne by avetis aharonian the armenian review magazine volume fall through spring memoirs of the chief armenian delegate to the paris peace conference were published in the armenian review magazine in articles from volume fall to volume spring these memoirs include an interview between aharonian and british foreign minister lord curzon in which above mentioned genocide was discussed the official report mentioned by lord curzon is the report of british high commissioner to caucasia sir oliver wardrop kill turks and kurds wherever you find them and in whatever circumstances you find them turkish children also should be killed as they form a danger to the armenian nation hamparsum boyadjian m varandian history of the dashnaktsutiun p source hovannisian richard g armenia on the road to independence university of california press berkeley and los angeles p the addition of the kars and batum oblasts to the empire increased the area of transcaucasia to over square miles the estimated population of the entire region in was of whom percent were armenian percent georgian and percent moslem of the latter group 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 erevan uezd the administrative center of the province had only armenians as compared to moslems by the time of the russian census of however the armenians had established a scant majority percent in the guberniia it had risen by to percent or of the inhabitants this impressive change in the province s ethnic character notwithstanding there was on the eve of the creation of the armenian republic a solid block of tartars who continued to dominate the southern districts from the outskirts of ereven to the border of persia see also map historic armenia and map administrative subdivisions of transcaucasia in percent turk 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 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
