Betrayed Armenia

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Apcar Diana Agabeg. Betrayed Armenia

WHY AND WHEREFORE

DISINTERESTED EVIDENCE

PREFACE TO 2ND PRINTING

INTRODUCTION TO 2ND PRINTING

PART I

THE ARMENIAN MASSACRES AND THE TREATY OF BERLIN

THE ARMENIAN MASSACRES AND THE TURKISH CONSTITUTION

THE ARMENIAN MASSACRES AND THE ARMENIAN PEOPLE

THE ARMENIAN MASSACRES AND THE FUTURE OF THE ARMENIANS

THE ARMENIAN MASSACRES AND CIVILIZED EUROPE

PART II

OUT OF THE DEPTHS

WHAT THE TURKISH CONSTITUTION MEANS FOR THE ARMENIANS

THE ARMENIAN QUESTION

OPEN LETTER TO THE HONORABLE PRESIDENT WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

ABDUL HAMID, THE TRIUMPH OF CRIME

L’AVENIR

THE ORIGIN OF THE ARMENIANS – THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY INTO ARMENIA – DECLINE & GRAND REVIVAL

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I have thought it advisable to insert a few extracts from accounts of the Massacres of April, 1909, given by disinterested witnesses.

History repeats itself. In 1895 Turkish soldiers fell upon seventy to eighty young women and girls in a church, where they had fled for refuge, and after hideously outraging them, barricaded them in, setting fire to the building at the same time, and derisively shouting to their victims as they were being roasted alive, to call upon their Christ to save them now.

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You will tell me, my christian friends, that with the rise of the reform party in Turkey, the era of massacres is at an end, and I will tell you that the conditions of 1876 and 1896 have not actually changed, though they may seemingly appear so to the uninformed and uninitiated. I will answer you that the hideous massacres of April last happened nine months after the reform party first rose in power, and nine months after the inauguration of the Constitution. I do not question the goodwill of the reform party, but the reform party does not comprise the whole Turkish nation, and until the Turk learns to become liberal, civilized and human, there may be no more Armenians left, unless some Christian Power such as the United States demands their protection and enforces it. No! my Christian friends, it can be well for other Christians in the Turkish Empire with their powerful Governments at their back; but alas! there is no security for a subject people alien in race and religion.

The massacres in April last raged from Adana to Alexandretta, and according to authenticated reports about fifty thousand men, women and children were hideously exterminated; more than this, the last massacres were especially characterized by the most hideous, the most loathsome, the most revolting and ferocious cruelties perpetrated on women and children. Now what other name can we find for the perpetrators of this diabolical orgy, except to call them fiends incarnate; and who is the bold man who can guarantee that these same fiends incarnate have become metamorphosed and changed all of a sudden; or that the handful of liberal Turks at Constantinople are capable of controlling and restraining them. We have not even heard that the leaders and participators of the last massacres have been punished as they deserved; and what is the reason they are left unpunished? because the Government is afraid to punish Mahommedans for killing Christians; because the liberal Turks dare not punish the “true believers” for killing “Kaffirs.”

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