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Quotations of Famous People "The whole Armenian population of each town or village was cleared out; by a house-to-house search. Every inmate was driven into the street. Some of the men were thrown into prison, where they were put to death, the rest of the men, with the women and children, were marched out of the town. When they had got some little distance they were separated, the men being taken to some place among the hills where the soldiers, or the Kurdish tribes who were called in to help in the work of slaughter, dispatched them by shooting or bayoneting."
Lord
James Bryce (1838-1922) "They were to be uprooted, whole households, from their homes, and driven off to an unknown destination… Communities like this, after being mutilated by the wholesale conscription or assassination of the husbands and fathers, were now torn up by the roots and driven, under the forlorn leadership of the old men, into an exile that was to terminate in a death of unspeakable horror."
Arnold
Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975) "All these atrocities have been committed toward Armenians even though they have not done anything to invite them."
Arnold
Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975) "We soon learned that orders had been issued to the governors of the provinces to send into exile the entire Armenian population in their jurisdiction irrespective of age and sex."
Henry Morgenthau
(1856-1946)
"The
real aim of deportations is killing and burglary. In
reality, it was a new way to eradicate a nation. When
Turkish powers were giving out the order for deportation,
they sentenced a whole nation to death."
"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
conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to
conceal the fact."
"A process of genocide is being
carried out before the eyes of the world."
"Turks
continued their previous policy. They would not stop
committing massive and most awful massacres that even Timur
Lang [Tamerlane]
would not dare to do."
"Armenia
is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it
still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a
heroic generation. A nation that does
not want to die, does not die."
"The
massacres that started in 1915 have nothing to compare with
the history of mankind. The massacres by Abdul Hamid are
minor in comparison to what today's Turks have done."
"The
deportations of Western Armenians are nothing but concealed
race extermination. There is no language rich enough to
describe the horrors of it."
"Who
can describes the feelings that an eyewitness experiences
when he thinks of this heroic and unfortunate nation. Its
courage and spirit surprise the world. A nation that
yesterday was one of the most energetic and progressive
nations of the Ottoman Empire, is becoming a memory."
"Even
after proclamation of the Constitution, the main slogan of
the Turkish policy has been ‘Without Armenians there will be
no Armenian problem’."
"Ottoman
Turkey initiated the genocide of the Armenians with the mass
arrest of Armenian intellectuals on 24th April 1915.
"Today
marks the commemoration of one of the great tragedies of
history: the forced exile and
annihilation of approximately 1.5 million Armenians in the
closing years of the Ottoman Empire. These infamous
killings darkened the 20th century and continue to haunt us
to this day. Today, I join Armenian Americans and the
Armenian community abroad to mourn the loss of so many
innocent lives. I ask all Americans to reflect on these
terrible events.
"I
should like to see any power in this world destroy this
race, this small tribe of unimportant people whose history
is ended, whose wars have been fought and lost, whose
structures have crumbled, whose literature is unread, whose
music is unheard, and whose prayers are no more answered. Go
ahead, destroy this race! Destroy Armenia! See if you can do
it. Send them from their homes into the desert. Let them
have neither bread nor water. Burn their homes and churches.
Then, see if they will not laugh again, see if they will not
sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in
the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia."
"In 1915 the
Turkish government began and ruthlessly carried out the
infamous general massacre and deportation of Armenians in
Asia Minor."
"There
is a strong circumstantial case that the vice consul to
Armenia, von Scheubner, was the man who carried the lesson
of the Holocaust forward from the Armenians and transmitted
it to Hitler, that Hitler recalled it formulated it as part
of his foreign policy as early as 1931, a decade before the
Jewish Holocaust was to be released in full fury. The
essence of what Hitler understood was indifference. To put
it crudely, it takes one hundred people to kill each child
in a genocide: one to pull the trigger, but ninety-nine to
shrug their shoulders. It was this legacy of indifference,
this lack of deterrence that led Hitler to make his famous
statement, ‘Who now remembers the Armenians?’."
"It
was not war. It was most certainly massacre and genocide,
something the world must remember... We will always reject
any attempt to erase its record, even for some political
advantage."
"Mr.
Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of
the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking
notice of the shocking events in 1915, we observe this
anniversary with sorrow in recalling the massacres of
Armenians and with pride in saluting those brave patriots
who survived to fight on the side of freedom during World
War I." |
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