GENOCIDE ESCAPED ARMENIANS TELL ABOUT TURKS’ BRUTALITIES
Panorama.am
12:24 25/03/2010
Society
"The Queens Gazette" New York based magazine referred to Armenian
Genocide in one of its publications stating that thousands of Armenians
living in America will pay tribute on 25 April to 1.5 annihilated
Armenians under Ottoman Empire.
"Known as the first genocide of the 20th Century, the Armenian Genocide
lasted from 1894 until 1923," paper writes.
Referring to some historic details, the reporter spoke at the New York
Armenian Home with Genocide escaped Armenians about their experiences
during the Armenian Genocide.
97-year-old Charlotte Kechejian, recollects walking for miles through
the desert with her mother to escape persecution by the Turks. She
remembers them feeling tired, thirsty, and hungry in the desert and
her mother kept promising her that if she would walk a little while
longer she could then rest and be comfortable. "We kept walking and my
mother kept saying a little bit more, a little bit more," Kechejian
said. "But the end never came." Only when an adult she learnt that
Turks killed her father.
Another resident of New York Armenian home, Oronik Eminian born in
Izmir told she was only 3 when Turkish cavalry officers rode into her
town. The officers arrested her father. Some time later they returned,
this time with a bag. When young Eminian answered the door, a young
officer knelt down and asked "Do you want to see you father?" He
then opened the bag, revealing bloody clothes and gore. "Here is your
father!" the officer said. Eminian started to scream and the officer
cracked her head open with the butt of a rifle. Her mother began to
cry. The group of soldiers entered the home and killed her mother and
grandmother. They bashed her two-month-old brother against a wall,
killing him, too. Rescued by the Red Cross, Eminian left for Greece
and remained there before coming to the United States in 1930.
Third genocide escaped Arsalo Dadir born 1913 in Shabin Karahisar had
seen her father and her uncle, a doctor, murdered during the April
24 massacre in Constantinople.
"I can remember the Turks removing hundreds of people from their homes
and taking them to the town square where they were shot," Dadir said.
"I saw hundreds of bodies piled up."
"The most incriminating document is the record kept by Talaat Pasha,
the chief instigator and sponsor of the Armenian Genocide. In it is a
minute record of the progress of the genocidal expulsions. He counted
900,000 victims in 1915 alone," Dr. Dennis R. Papazian, a professor
of the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan stated.
Paper concludes the Genocide served as a lesson for other tyrannical
regimes. Adolph Hitler, when asked by his general staff on the eve
of the invasion of Poland what the world would think and how they
would be judged by history, replied, "It doesn’t matter. After all,
who today remembers the extermination of the Armenians?"