2008-06-25, 17:00
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Statement of German Missionaries on Urmia.Och hr r ett klipp p svltande assyrier och armenier som deporterades:
There was absolutely no human power to protect these unhappy people from the savage onslaught of the invading hostile forces. It was an awful situation. At midnight the terrible exodus began; a concourse of 25,000 men, women, and children, Assyrians and Armenians, leaving cattle in the stables, all their household hoods and all the supply of food for winter, hurried, panic-stricken, on a long and painful journey to the Russian border, enduring the intense privations of a foot journey in the snow and mud, without any kind of preparation… It was a dreadful sight,… many of the old people and children died along the way.
The latest news is that four thousand Assyrians and one hundred Armenians have died of disease alone, at the mission, within the last five months. All villages in the surrounding district with two or three exceptions have been plundered and burnt; twenty thousand Christians have been slaughtered in Armenia and its environs. In Haftewan, a village of Salmas, 750 corpses without heads have been recovered from the wells and cisterns alone. Why? Because the commanding officer had put a price on every Christian head… In Dilman crowds of Christians were thrown into prison and driven to accept Islam.
Taget frn The Death of a Nation, pp. 119–120, 126–127.
From the third century AD on, the Assyrians embraced Christianity in increasing numbers, even though the Assyrian religion persisted in places like Harran at least until the tenth,79 in Mardin even until the 18th century AD.80 The single-minded adherence to the Christian faith from late antiquity until the present time has made Christianity an indelible part of Assyrian identity, but it has also subjected the Assyrians to endless persecutions and massacres, first at the hands of the Romans, then at the hands of the Sasanian Persians, and most recently at the hands of Arabs, Kurds and Turks. These persecutions and massacres have reduced the total number of Assyrians from an estimated 20 million or more in antiquity81 to well under two million today.82 They have decimated the Assyrian nation, but they have also helped it survive through the millennia.Det har allts alltid rrt sig om massakrer och etniska konflikter, inga totala och kompletta folkmord.
http://www.jaas.org/edocs/v18n2/Parp...e%20-Final.pdf
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