Armenia and Her People; or, The Story of Armenia by an ArmenianFilian, George H.
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Armenia and Her People; or, The Story of Armenia by an Armenian
Filian, George H.
Armenia; Armenian question
Cesarea, Nov. 20, 1895.--While the Armenians were engaged
in their business, as usual, the Turkish mob fell upon them,
killing 600 defenseless men and wounding 1,000 more. The mob
divided into four parts. The first part plundered the stores,
the second looted the houses, the third secured the maidens and
young brides, while the fourth, fiends incarnate, attacked the
public baths. These human devils killed six naked women in the
presence of the others, snatching their babies from their arms and
bayoneting the mothers. The shrieks and agonizing cries of these
poor creatures made no impression upon the minds of the savage
Turks, who laughed at their death agonies. They then took some
of the young girls, who were with their mothers at the bath,
and dragged them naked, by their feet, through the streets,
followed by a jeering and hooting mob.
The Turks who attacked the houses then killed them and fired the
houses. The cries of the women, mingled with the hoarse shouts of
the Turks, can never be forgotten. The men who survived the sword
were discovered, taken to the magistrate and searched, but no arms
were found in their possession, not even a knife. When released,
and allowed to return to their homes, they were confronted by a
most ghastly picture. Some found their wives dead, others horribly
mutilated; daughters were bleeding. My hand almost fails me to
write the awful particulars. It took three or four days to remove
the bodies of the dead with forty carts. Add to this the want,
the desolation. Oh, my God, for how long, how long! Where are
those Christian powers who saved African slaves? Where are those
Christians who advocated brotherly love and mercy, sending their
missionaries to teach us? Are they deaf to our piercing cry?
AINTAB AND ITS HORRORS.
The writer is well acquainted with Aintab, and some of his best
friends live there, if they have not been killed. It has about 40,000
population, one-third of it being Armenian. There are great scholars
among them. Central Turkey College is there. It is an American college,
but most of the professors are native Armenians, graduates of Yale
College. There is also a woman's American College and a hospital. The
Evangelical Armenians are the strongest; they have three large
churches. They are considered to be the richest Evangelical Armenians
in Turkey. But hundreds of them were killed, wounded and plundered;
in all about 4,000 of the Armenian population were killed.
A Letter from Aintab, November 23, 1895.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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