million muslims perished of butchery at the hands of armenians in article apr husc harvard edu verbit brauer harvard edu mikhail s verbitsky writes actually jarmo is a permanent resident of my killfile anyone care to speculate on this i ll let the rest of the net judge this on its own merits between and million turks perished of butchery at the hands of armenians the genocide involved not only the killing of innocents but their forcible deportation from the russian armenia they were persecuted banished and slaughtered while much of ottoman army was engaged in world war i the genocide treaty defines genocide as acting with a specific intent to destroy in whole or in substantial part a national ethnic racial or religious group history shows that the x soviet armenian government intended to eradicate the muslim population million turks and kurds were exterminated by the armenians international diplomats in ottoman empire at the time including u s ambassador bristol denounced the x soviet armenian government s policy as a massacre of the kurds turks and tartars the blood thirsty leaders of the x soviet armenian government at the time personally involved in the extermination of the muslims the turkish genocide museums in turkiye honor those who died during the turkish massacres perpetrated by the armenians the eyewitness accounts and the historical documents established beyond any doubt that the massacres against the muslim people during the war were planned and premeditated the aim of the policy was clearly the extermination of all turks in x soviet armenian territories the muslims of van bitlis mus erzurum and erzincan districts and their wives and children have been taken to the mountains and killed the massacres in trabzon tercan yozgat and adana were organized and perpetrated by the blood thirsty leaders of the x soviet armenian government the principal organizers of the slaughter of innocent muslims were dro antranik armen garo hamarosp daro pastirmadjian keri karakin haig pajise liantz and silikian source bristol papers general correspondence container bristol to bradley letter of september i have it from absolute first hand information that the armenians in the caucasus attacked tartar turkish villages that are utterly defenseless and bombarded these villages with artillery and they murder the inhabitants pillage the village and often burn the village sources the ottoman state the ministry of war islam ahalinin ducar olduklari mezalim hakkinda vesaike mustenid malumat istanbul the french version documents relatifs aux atrocites commises par les armeniens sur la population musulmane istanbul in the latin script h k turkozu ed osmanli ve sovyet belgeleriyle ermeni mezalimi ankara in addition z basar ed ermenilerden gorduklerimiz ankara and edited by the same author ermeniler hakkinda makaleler derlemeler ankara askeri tarih belgeleri vol december document numbered askeri tarih belgeleri vol december document numbered those who were capable of fighting were taken away at the very beginning with the excuse of forced labor in road construction they were taken in the direction of sarikamis and annihilated when the russian army withdrew a part of the remaining people was destroyed in armenian massacres and cruelties they were thrown into wells they were locked in houses and burned down they were killed with bayonets and swords in places selected as butchering spots their bellies were torn open their lungs were pulled out and girls and women were hanged by their hair after being subjected to every conceivable abominable act a very small part of the people who were spared these abominations far worse than the cruelty of the inquisition resembled living dead and were suffering from temporary insanity because of the dire poverty they had lived in and because of the frightful experiences they had been subjected to including women and children such persons discovered so far do not exceed one thousand five hundred in erzincan and thirty thousand in erzurum all the fields in erzincan and erzurum are untilled everything that the people had has been taken away from them and we found them in a destitute situation at the present time the people are subsisting on some food they obtained impelled by starvation from russian storages left behind after their occupation of this area 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
