“EYEWITNESSES ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE” BOOK SHEDS LIGHT ON OTTOMAN GENOCIDE AGAINST ARMENIANS

Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)
February 4, 2015 Wednesday

Damascus, SANA, The Damascus-based Commission for Commemorating the
Centenary of the Armenian Genocide held a ceremony for signing the book
titled “Eyewitnesses on Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire” by
Armenia’s Ambassador to Syria Arshak Poladian at al-Assad Library with
the presence of politicians, clergymen, intellectuals and journalists.

Dr. Poladian said in his book, issued by al-Sharq Publishing House
in Damascus that the Ottomans perpetrated genocide that expanded
geographically throughout the Armenian map- from Cilicia to Mount
Ararat through Trabzon and the eastern states- highlighting the
crimes of banishment, killing, burning of houses, pillage, rape and
humiliation against the Armenians, citing heart-wrenching stories of
pain, grief and sadness.

The book includes testimonies of three eyewitnesses (the Syrian
lawyer Fayez al-Ghussein, Naem Bek al-Turki and Father Isaac Armala
al-Syriani).

The 250-paper book contains precise documents featuring the horrible
atrocities which the Ottomans committed against a million and a half
Armenians in late 19th century and early 20th century.

Rasha Milhem/ Barry

From: A. Papazian