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- Path: sparky!uunet!anatolia.mn.org!zuma!sera
- From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe,soc.history,talk.politics.cis
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- Subject: He's got the clue !
- Message-ID: <9211211041@zuma.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 10:41:16 EST
- Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
- References: <1992Nov19.183646.25628@cs.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov19.183646.25628@cs.wisc.edu> solodov@monterey1.cs.wisc.edu (Mikhail V. Solodov) writes:
-
- >ok, here is an intelligent solution.
- >Let us all put this Argic guy in our .kill file .
-
- Now that's an intelligent solution. So your solace is not religion or
- yoga or rum or "karakus" or even deep sleep. It's history.
-
- "The revolutionary committees in Van were more powerful than those
- in other parts of the country. Large quantities of arms and ammunition
- were imported through Iran and the Caucusus, and a well-disciplined
- organization set up among the Armenians. In Van we find the Hunchaks,
- the Armenagans, and the Dashnaks.
-
- Preparations for the rebellion had been going on for almost a year.
- Stores of arms and ammunition had been built up by means of an 'arms tax'
- levied on the Armenian population, and the organization of the mutiny had
- been taken over by leaders from Russia and Iran."
-
- "...It was under these circumstances that the Armenian rebellion broke out
- in April 1915. The rebellion, which lasted until August, seemed to follow
- a course parallel to the one outlined in the protocol mentioned above.
- One was continually coming across Armenians cutting off telegraph lines,
- and when asked why they were doing this, they would invariably reply
- they had been ordered to do this by the Russians. When the Russians launched
- an offensive on the front, the Armenians would revolt in the rear. Indeed,
- there were also revolts far inside the country, in places as remote as
- Sebinkarahisar. There were in fact very few Ottoman forces in the rear of
- the army. In Istanbul, too, an Armenian revolutionary movement was
- discovered."
-
- "In all the occupied territory from which the Russians were withdrawing,
- the Turks were exposed to attacks by the Armenians, who were attempting
- to take over the administration. The Turkish population was forced to
- leave their homes and flee. There were large number of unwarranted
- arrests and many were killed. Antranik arrived in Erzurum as a general
- in Russian uniform to take over the defence of the city, and he was
- joined there by Doctor Zavriev, who had previously been appointed
- Deputy Governor-General of the occupied provinces. The atrocities and
- massacres committed by the Armenians continued in their fury."
-
- Serdar Argic
-
- 'This war quickly developed into one of extermination.
- We closed the roads and mountain passes that might
- serve as ways of escape for the Tartars [Turks] and
- then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
- (Ohanus Appressian)
-
-