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Diana Agabeg Apcar. Betrayed Armenia
Betrayed Armenia
Table of Contents
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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Diana Agabeg Apcar
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“God save us from another Adana, but the sword of Islam has not been dulled” was one of the clarion notes sounded at the Sixth International Convention of the Student Volunteer Movement, which was held at Rochester, New York. The man who sounded that clarion note knew Islam, and because knowing of my own knowledge that the sword of Islam has not been dulled, I tremble lest its sharp edge fall once more on the neck of my helpless race. If I knew and felt sure in mine own heart that the sword of Islam was dulled, I would be content to let bygones be bygones, and to hold my peace and be silent for ever.
Like the sudden explosion of a volcano in the physical world, comes the explosion of a Turkish Massacre of Armenians in the moral world. It comes just in that way; the subterranean fires are always there, but all of a sudden the sulphur flames of religious fanaticism burst, the lava floods of race hatred and lust of plunder, break forth and run in fiery streams; the unfortunate victims are pounced upon, swooped upon, pillaged, plundered, butchered, slaughtered, subjected to outrages so hideous, cruel, loathsome, and revolting, that no pen could depict their horrible realities and the details can never go into print. The human mind is staggered and asks itself the question if even the imaginations of fiends and devils could originate such horrors. Then this orgy of the human fiends is arrested. For the time being the appetite for blood, lust, and plunder is satisfied; for the time being, the eye is content with the scenes of havoc and desolation lying under the sun; the smell of corpses is in the air, the odor from the carcases of the “christian swine” reek in the nostrils of the Turk, he turns away, his jaws dripping with blood, and rests to couch for a future spring. We have seen that sort of an end to the tragedy of a tiger’s victim: the tiger has eaten his fill, he rests, to keep guard over the crunched bones and mangled bits of bloody flesh that bestrew the earth. So also now there is a residue left of those that have served as the meat and wine of this devil’s feast; the demons have gorged themselves over the banquet, and now there are left over the broken remains of the banquet, the miserable residue homeless and destitute.
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